神僧傳 9.33

9.33

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.