法苑珠林 97.62

97.62

宋時有一人忘其姓名。與婦同寢。天曉婦起。後夫尋出外。而婦還見其夫。猶在被中眠。須臾奴子外來。云郎求鏡。婦以奴詐。巧指床上以示奴。奴云。適從郎處來。於是馳白其夫。大愕便入。夫婦共視被中人。高枕安寢。正是其形。了無一異。慮是其魂神。不敢驚動。乃共以手徐徐撫床。遂冉冉入席。漸漸消滅。夫婦惋悑如此。少時夫得疾。性理乖錯。於是終卒（右一驗出續搜神記）。

In the Song period, there was a man whose name has been forgotten. He slept together with his wife. At dawn, the wife arose. Later, the husband went outside, yet the wife returned to see her husband still asleep under the quilt. Soon after, a servant boy came in from outside and said that the master was asking for a mirror. The wife thought the servant was lying and cleverly pointed at the bed to show the servant. The servant said: "I have just come from the master's side." Thereupon, he ran out to inform the husband. Greatly startled, [the husband] came in. Husband and wife looked together at the person under the quilt: pillowing his head high and sleeping peacefully, it was precisely his form, with not the slightest difference. Fearing it was his spirit soul, they did not dare to disturb it; instead, they gently patted the bed with their hands together. Thereupon, it drifted slowly into the mat and gradually dissolved away. The husband and wife were terrified by this. A short time later, the husband fell ill, his mental faculties became disordered, and he thereupon passed away. (The above evidential miracle is from the Xu Soushen ji.)