Encounter With A Lady Gnome

By Barry

This is a story from when I just move to a new living place.

My first night there, I dreamt a lady, who was really angry at me. She said, "Do you want to pick a fight with me!" When I woke up at the morning, I thought it is just an ordinary dream because I was too tired moving things. But then, another day, I dream the very same lady who was always angry at me... This occurred for three days straight... Then I know that something really wrong happened...

I pray in front of my altar to my lineage master for some hints of what actually happened to me... So through dream again, a man in white come to me and told me, that somehow I offend this land's earth god subordinate, and she is the lady in my dream... Actually at that time I didn't know what I did that has offended her...

So next morning, I recite some spell to invite the earth god of my place, and I ask him/her to bring his/her subordinate that I offended. I didn't posses yin-yang eyes though, so I didn't know the gender of the earth god in my place. I only know his/her presence through the feeling in the atmosphere... When I sense they have come, I apologized for any inconvenience I caused upon them, and asked them to protect me instead of bothering me. If they would do so, I'll dedicate some merit to them as often as I could...

So next time, I dream about the lady-gnome, she show more benign face and smiled to me...

When I met my master and told him this story, he said that maybe she was offended because I open my altar immediately after I come to my new house without asking any blessings or permission to the earth god first... Some spell could make some beings cannot enter my room, which they could do it easily before...

Liew’s note:

Perhaps the norm for folks in Asia to make offerings before moving into a new place is no nonsense after all. Incidentally, I performed smoke offering at my friend’s haunted house and I was not disturbed in anyway; but a few people who stayed there before me suffered severe migraine. Strange but true!