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The belief in jiangshi and its representation in the popular imagination was also partly derived from the habit of "corpse-driving", [6] [7] a practice involving the repatriation of the corpses of dead laborers across Xiang province (present-day Hunan) to their hometowns for burial in family gravesites. The corpses were trussed up against ...
During the Qing Dynasty in Xiangxi, Taoist priests working as corpse herders guide the dead back home to their burial place by using Maoshan arts to cast incantations on jiangshi ("stiff corpses") to animate their movement, but due to the onset of rigor mortis, the dead travel by hopping.
Jiangshi fiction, or goeng-si fiction in Cantonese, is a literary and cinematic genre of horror based on the jiangshi of Chinese folklore, a reanimated corpse controlled by Taoist priests that resembles the zombies and vampires of Western fiction.
The corpse and the two end up separated during the chaos, and they land in Africa. The corpse lands in front of Xixo , where he and his tribe are being confronted by a rival clan led by two greedy Caucasians. The corpse's presence scares away the villains. Xixo somehow learns to control the corpse using a bell and he takes it to his tribe.
The relatives of a New Jersey man who died in 2023 were "denied their right to grieve the death of their late loved one," according to the complaint
Cheung is tricked into spending the night in a temple, but he encounters Tsui who tells him that he must sleep on the roof. Cheung does so. A coffin in the temple opens, and a jiangshi, a hopping corpse, begins looking for him, but he is safe. Chin gives up when he cannot find Cheung (he is controlling the jiangshi), just as Cheung falls down.
Walker — who used handles including “CVLLEN,” “ghoblins,” and “WRATH” — coerced his victims into engaging in increasingly demeaning acts online, “including cutting and eating ...
A Maryland woman will spend up to 50 years in prison after the badly decaying bodies of her niece and nephew were found in her trunk, where she had kept them for months. On August 13, 2024, Nicole ...