法苑珠林 61.23

61.23

異苑曰。高陽新城叟民。晉咸寧中為淫祠妖幻。署置百官。又以水自鑒。輒見所置署之人。衣冠麗然。百姓信惑。京都翕習。收而斬之。異苑曰。上虞孫溪奴。多諸幻伎。元嘉初叛入建安治中。後出民間破宿瘦癖。徑徹腹內而令不痛。治人風頭流血滂沱。噓之便斷創又即斂。虎傷蛇噬煩毒垂死。禁護皆瘥。向空長嘯則群雀來萃。夜呪蚊虻悉死於側。至十三年於長山為本主所得。知有禁術慮必亡叛。的縛枷鎖極為重複。少日已失所在。

The Garden of Strange Phenomena states: "An old commoner of Xincheng in Gaoyang engaged in illicit sacrifices and demonic illusions during the Xianning reign-period of the Jin dynasty, appointing the hundred officials. Furthermore, when he gazed into water as a mirror, he would always see the persons he had appointed dressed magnificently in robes and caps. The common people believed and were deluded, and the capital was agitated; he was arrested and beheaded."
The Garden of Strange Phenomena states: "Sun Xinu of Shangyu possessed many illusion arts. At the beginning of the Yuanjia reign-period, he rebelled and entered Jian'an Commandery. Later he emerged among the common people and could puncture old emaciated lumps, going directly through to the interior of the abdomen without causing pain; when treating someone's wind-induced headache with blood gushing profusely, blowing upon it immediately stopped the bleeding and the wound closed up at once; for tiger maulings, snake bites, and burning poisons near death, all were cured through his binding incantations; whistling long toward the empty sky, flocks of sparrows would gather; chanting incantations at night over mosquitoes and gnats, they all died beside him. In the thirteenth year, he was captured at Changshan by his original master; knowing that he possessed binding arts and fearing he would certainly escape, they bound him securely with cangues and fetters in multiple layers, yet in a few days he had already vanished without a trace."