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神僧傳 9.33

神僧傳 9.33

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9.33

釋全清越人也。得密藏禁呪之法。能厭劾鬼神。時有市儈王家之婦患邪氣。言語狂倒。或啼或笑。如是數歲。召浦治之。乃縛草人長尺餘。衣以五綵。置之於壇。呪禁之良久。婦言。乞命。遂誌之曰。頃歲春日於禹祠前相附耳。如師不見殺即放之遠去。清乃取一䍌(步後切)以鞭驅蒭。靈入其中而呦呦有聲。緘器口以六乙泥。朱書符印之瘞于桑林之下。戒家人勿動之。婦人病差。經五載後值劉漢宏與董昌隔江而相持越城陷。人謂此為窖(音教)藏。掘打䍌破。見一鴉闖(音朕)然飛出。立於桑杪。而作人語曰。今得見日光矣。時清公已卒也。

Śramaṇa Quanqing was a native of Yue. Having obtained the secret methods of esoteric dhāraṇī-incantations, he was able to suppress and summon ghosts and spirits. At that time, the wife of Wang, a local merchant, was afflicted by an evil spirit. Her speech was deranged and confused, and she would now weep and now laugh. This had gone on for several years. They summoned [Quanqing] to treat her. He tied a grass effigy a little over a foot tall, dressed it in five-colored silks, and placed it upon the altar. After he had recited incantations over it for a long while, the woman said, "I beg for my life!" Thereupon, [the spirit] gave an account of itself, saying, "In a spring past, in front of the Shrine of Yu, I attached myself to her. If the Master will not kill me, I will depart far away." Qing then took an earthen jar and with a whip drove the straw effigy. The spirit entered into it with a bleating sound. He sealed the mouth of the vessel with Liuyi mud, stamped it with vermilion-written talismans, and buried it beneath a mulberry grove, warning the family not to disturb it. The woman's illness was cured. Five years later, when Liu Hanhong and Dong Chang faced off across the river and the city of Yue fell, people thought this was a buried hoard. They dug it up and broke the jar. A crow dashed forth in flight, perched atop a mulberry tree, and spoke in human words, saying, "Today I see the light of the sun!" By that time, Master Qing had already passed away.

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