法苑珠林 95.49

95.49

During the Song dynasty, Wang Wenming served as the Magistrate of Jiang'an towards the end of the Taishe era. His wife had been ill for a long time. When her daughter was outside cooking gruel for her mother, just as it was about to be cooked, it turned into blood. She discarded it and made more, but it happened just as before; this occurred twice. Soon afterwards, the mother passed away. Later, when the sons and daughters were weeping before her soul tablet, they suddenly saw their mother lying on the bier, looking just as she did in life; as the children cried out in sorrow, she abruptly vanished. Earlier, Wenming had favored his wife's personal maidservant, who was pregnant and about to give birth. On the day of his wife's burial, he had the maidservant guard the house while all the others went to the tomb site. Just as the procession set out, the wife manifested her form, entered through the door, and beat the maidservant. Later, when the daughters were preparing food for their father, they killed a chicken; after they had finished gutting and washing it, the chicken suddenly sprang up, raised its head, and crowed loudly. Soon afterwards, Wenming died, and his sons passed away one after another. (The preceding three verifications are from the Shuyi ji.)