Hungry Ghost Festival –
Old Housewives Recollections 2
This is the
2nd part of “Hungry Ghost Festival-Old Housewives Recollections”
which I previously wrote. This is about the experiences of “aunties” (I guess I
am an “old uncle”…sob!) about the eerie and unnatural but real-life incidents
that they have encountered.
4th Experience
Burning of Joss Sticks
for Hungry Ghost Festival
Mrs. Ching
told us about her strange and weird encountered when she was young schoolgirl. During
that month, Hungry Ghost Month to specific, many people burned incense, joss sticks,
paper money etc (“yim poh lup chook”- a Cantonese translation, I hope I got it
right) during this occasion, on roadsides, street corners and back lanes.
She (Mrs
Ching) was impatiently waiting for her ride after school ended and she casually
noticed a lot of incense burnt paper Chinese offerings…then she simply kicked
and stomped her foot at the ashes lying there. Her reason for stamping on these
ashes was just because she was impatient or just simply wanted to do it. She admitted
she was a spoilt and rotten kid (her own words not mine).
That night,
she woke up to find her body was extremely hot and was perspiring with her body
drenched in sweat. Resting in her bed, she suddenly saw a shadowy black apparition
on top of her! Oh Gawd! stunned and in
total shock, the shadowy apparition with fiery slit red eyes, angrily glared
and stared at her.
In her
desperation she somehow managed to get out of her bed then rushed to her mother’s
bed, sobbing and crying, to safety in her parents’ bedroom. She spent the night
crawled under her mother’s side underneath her mother’s blanket for the rest of
the night.
She had a high
temperature or high fever and could not go to school the next day. Her mother
asked her what happened and she reluctantly admitted to stepping on the burnt Chinese
offerings. Her mother was furious but did not say much as she was still sick.
The next
day, her mother dragged her to a Chinese temple where a “medium” gave her a
holy water and some chanting and soon she was alright!
Lucky for
her! Since that time she respectfully followed the tradition and was careful
not to step on those ashes again.
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