In Chinese
belief, there are two types of death: good and bad.
Good death
for a common person refers to a person die while surrounded by his/her beloved
family members. For a monk or Taoist however, a good death is when the person
died in his/her meditative state of mind.
On the
other hand, bad death refers to a person died suddenly and outside of his/her
house. In this case, he/she may die in a state of confused and shocked mind;
and that this person may not know he/she is already dead.
Of course,
it is not our option to choose how we will meet our end so while we are alive,
we can either perform good deeds so that we die in peace and in one piece.
Anyway my pal, Lee who is a member of local emergency respond team and he had a
close encounter with a lost soul who lost his soul in a freak accident.
It was just
past midnight, Ah Kow and I were waiting for Lee at a ‘mamak’ stall (eating
outlet). As usual Lee was late and when he finally showed himself, Ah Kow who
has psychic eyes saw a ghost with half smashed brain and torn blood soaked
shirt standing behind Lee.
So, Ah Kow
jokingly said: “Who is that bloody friend behind you, Mr. Lee?”
Lee knew Ah
Kow has special ability to see ghosts; he gave a shiver and then pulled up a
chair and sat beside us. Apparently the reason he was late was because just as
when he was on the way to meet us, he saw a motorcycle accident. The motorcycle
in front of him was speeding fast and it suddenly lost control and collided
with the road divider. The impact has sent the motorcyclist flew into opposite
direction. And unfortunately speaking, the poor motorcyclist was run over by a
lorry and two cars that have failed to stop on time. Perhaps you can imagine
the condition of the poor motorcyclist at that time. Being a good Samaritan,
Lee called the police and ambulance and helped to collect body parts: brain,
flesh and broken limbs of the deceased.
After Lee
told his story, he asked Ah Kow: “What does it want from me?”
Ah Kow
said: “I can’t make it speak now. We must go to my altar and ask Sifu (Master)
Liew to open its mouth…”
I was
curious to find out too. Hence off we went to Ah Kow’s altar and I did a
conjuration ritual and ordered the lost soul to possess Ah Kow’s body and talk.
After a while, the spirit possessed Ah Kow’s body.
Me: “Why do
you follow Lee around?”
Ghost: “Where
am I? My mind went blank. I am to go home to see my wife and suddenly this
person stepped onto my brain. So I followed him back.”
On hearing
that, I turned to Lee and he took up his shoe to inspect… and true enough there
are some blood stains with some tissues wedged under his shoes.
Then I told
the ghost that we would send it back to the place where it met with the
accident as its relatives would hire some Taoists to perform a soul calling
ceremony the next day.
The ghost
agreed and it left Ah Kow’s body. I turned to Lee and said:
“Now you
owe us a cup of hot tea!”
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