GUANGYUAN, Sichuan — After other black magic rituals failed to cure his wife’s ailments, Yan Yingmao relented to the Chinese witch doctors’ wishes: she would be steamed alive until the “ghosts” were dispelled from her body.
The two men who had been “treating” the woman proceeded to place her inside a wooden barrel suspended over a large vat of slowly boiling water.
“She seemed OK at first,” said Yan, who lives in the remote village of Guangyuan deep in the mountains of south-western China.
As scalding vapour began to pass through the barrel, “the screaming began,” Yan told The Sunday Telegraph. He remonstrated with the two witch doctors to stop. “But they said it was the sound of demons leaving her body,” he said.
They said it was the sound of demons leaving her body
After pulling her blackened body from the barrel and cradling her in his arms, he knew it was too late. “I looked at her face, and it was purple. She told me she wouldn’t make it,” said Yan, 45. The pair of witch doctors then slipped away and ran to the green mountains surrounding the family home, but were later arrested.
This incident in Sichuan province shows how belief in the supernatural and adherence to ancient rituals still runs deep in rural China.
Beijing is waging a war against superstition, having vowed to eradicate poverty and improve education among the country’s alienated rural citizenry. But people living in Yan’s community speak openly of their belief in the power of spiritual healing for physical ailments, while some blame “ghosts” or “devils” in the body for health defects.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/china-supernatural-beijings-battle-against-ancient-superstitions
The death of Yan’s wife — whose name he would not disclose — follows other lethal “exorcisms” in China.
In the southern island of Hainan, three brothers were charged with murder in 2013 after they killed their mother in an attempt to treat her painful joints. Gao Yongchuan, a self-proclaimed “legendary doctor subordinate to the Jade Emperor, Taoist ruler of heaven” had force-fed the 61-year-old woman with a concoction of distilled liquor and the blood of pigs, chicken and dogs. When she fell unconscious, he ordered her sons to beat her to death, burn the body and bury it. She would then climb from the ground, he promised them.
China’s booming coastal cities have also witnessed extreme “healing.” In 2013 a self-styled “ghostbuster’ persuaded a woman to sleep with him by saying that he could only exorcise her demons with his penis.
Those accused of committing crimes through “dispelling ghosts” have been accused of distorting the art of shamanism. Shamans, or “spirit masters,” are considered by some communities to be the intermediary between the spiritual and human worlds, often offering advice in the form of fortune telling.
Yan now lives in despair, trying to cope with the loss of the mother of his two children, and also the guilt that he was partly responsible for her death. “I would have rather died than let this happen. How could I have intentionally killed my wife,” he said.
no need to fume in anger! it was the ghosts' fault!
I wonder if those shamans really believe it, or are they just happy to get paid for trolling people
>>44905
>fume in anger
kek
>>44891
The human cost doesn't concern me, there are a billion more that can take their place, what concerns me is that their superstition is going to make several species extinct, all for potions that they think will make their little rice dicks bigger.
This is Africa tier tbh
>>44952
kek
>>44891
Wasn't Mao's whole deal ridding China of its stupid cave man folk-wisdom? Sure he supplanted it with his own but I guess this sort of thing shows how far China has fallen from the anti-religious nature of old block communism.
As a Chinese person who grew up in the West, when I went to China to my old families I understood why the culture is this way.
1) China's provinces express loyalty to themselves and as a result China will never be truly unified. In fact it should be split like European states. There are cultures more westernized and cultures that still behave like African tribes.
2) Those that behave like African tribes saw an economic boom in the recent years. Even though Deng Xiapeng in the 90s had reformed China's economic policies only about 3 cities are as modern as the media tells us.
These people live in a world of superstitions and lies forged from ancient times that shit like Tiger Blood is healthful. The merchant class was prominent in China in pre-Qing China. They spread lies about medicines to sell their rare "medicines".
In the Tang Dynasty, any progress from the Song was erased because of corrupt politicians curbing people's attention away from discovering new worlds and working with Europeans.
In short the corrupt and foolish pride of Chinese elites prevented China from modernizing like Japan. Its lower classes are still as act like they live in the middle ages with state-controlled television and internet.
Two ways this can change:
1) Guns and manpower to take down the CCCP
2) Wait one or two more generations.
>>44957
This.
What the fuck is you doing china LMAO
>>44913
A lot of Chinese are literal jews but some get so caught up in the lie they start believing their shit is actually magical
>>44993
I think the second mention, the one who demanded the body be beaten, burned, and buried, surely did so to get rid of the evidence of the crime they knowingly committed. These people are smart enough to profit from tales, they're also smart enough to try to cover their tracks afterwards.
Of course, there is always the type that really does believe. I think the steamers did, and only bolted after they realized they done fucked up.
>>44985
I always think it's really interesting to see people speak out against the CCCP. As an American southerner I've not met many Chinese people, but I knew a British girl for years who did nothing but speak of how misunderstood and great China was. It's always interesting seeing the strange combination of first world and third coming out of China, especially with it now trying to express itself as a world power over more of the east and Africa.
>>45160
I'm an american chink who hates the Chinese international students
They took all of my family's money, fucked up everything, then have the gall to say that it's great
The only thing that makes me angrier is people that want to do that shit here in the US
Fuck the commies and the socialists and the gun control fags
>The pair of witch doctors then slipped away and ran to the green mountains
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>44985
Yeah, sounds something like I always thought about.
China have extreme inequality from the super rich to the barbaric poor.
>>44892
>he could only exorcise her demons with his penis
Just like my doujins
>>44984
rapid loss of religion in a population correlates with a rise in superstishion. people need time to move away from modes of thougt that provide the feelings such things provide or they will just find something similar.
related, movements to lower superstition have increased conspiracy theorist.
>this is supposed to be the next world power
>>45240
>rapid loss of religion in a population correlates with a rise in superstishion. people need time to move away from modes of thougt that provide the feelings such things provide or they will just find something similar.
related, movements to lower superstition have increased conspiracy theorist.
What the fuck am I reading here?
>>45187
The result of capitalism or communism is massive weath disparities. A mix is needed to keep powers balanced
>>45244
As religion and superstition fade some people need other overarching beliefs to cling to, be they are logical or not.
>>44984
>Wasn't Mao's whole deal ridding China of its stupid cave man folk-wisdom
That was just his excuse, what he actually did was the opposite, rounding up and killing anyone with anything resembling intelligence or an education so that there was nothing left but brain-dead inbred retards.
>>45241
the country that's produced mormonism, scientology, pray-away-the-cancer, "legitimate rape", "the internet is a series of tubes" etc. IS currently the world power.
>>44952
keep ur /pol/tier shit to urself anon
there is no need for pathetic racism here
>>45245
How do you mix communism and capitalism? Do you mean voluntarily forming your own commune? This is all ready legal in most market economy countries, but not many people seem to want to do it.
>>45288
But chinks are retarded 3rd world niggers
>>44985
>chinese
>song before tang
>>44891
china is such a degenerated country , they polute/poisen themself and the world environment (every few months you read/see reports about Human "Mutants") , Stupid Chinese believe in Magic Potions/Medicine and extinguish more than 30% of Animals of Earth for this by themselfs or often by people from Africa for Tiger Penis or Rhino Horns etc.(also they shit like killing 2million + Sharks only for their fins , rest of shark bodies are trash for them). Never trust a communist country , they are also 1of top country for economic espionage
>>45288
Looks like r/asianmasculinity has arrived.
>>45288
There was fuck all /pol/ related in that post, you small cocked fuck.
Go and steam your wife and drink some tiger wine, you vile little shit.
>>47140
bunch of slit eyed fish heads
>>44993
>A lot of Chinese are literal jews
How can a Chinese guy be a jew? That makes no sense.
>>44985
How can you be Chinese and not know the order of the dynasties?
Xia > Shang > Zhou > Qin > Han > Sui > Tang > Song/Jin > Yuan > Ming > Qing
>>47180
You must be confused. There are "German Jews" and "Spanish Jews" and in the same way there are "Chinese Jews". It's a modern western idiosyncracy. Basically to most modern western eyes, anyone who lives in a country X and has citizenship, is Xish. So this is how you get people saying stupid things like the oromos are Ethiopian, or that Americans/europeans are joining Isis is a real problem. Oromos are no more Ethiopian than the yakuts are Russian or
the Uyghurs are Chinese. Likewise, it's not europeans or americans who are joining isis, but pakistanis and somalis.
Basically no one cares to learn history or even current events, so they just revert to using a map to label people.
>>45316
It not legal to collect fucking rainwater in most of the USA go back to /biz/ you evil kike liar
>>47437
>I'm such a subversive communist revolutionary that I'm afraid to collect rain water.
I'm sure that's the only thing holding back your dedicated spirit of eternal revolution, gomrade limpdick.
>>45288
And back to tumblr you go.
>>45288
It's not racist if it's true
>>44891
At least they're doing something about it.
I've heard kids say that they want to worship supernatural characters they see on TV shows. So many people believe in ghosts that there are TV shows where all you have to do is go to a dark building and pretend to hear noises and you'll get paid. There's some effeminate guy who pretends to be a psychic for rich celebrities that is famous now.
This is a cultural issue across the globe, it should be dealt with. It takes money and lives from people.
>>44952
>the human cost doesn't concern me
What size fedora do you wear?
>>47128
0.3/10
>sYUMmer
>>47426
this is the smartest thing i've read on 4chan in years
>IS THIS REAL LIFE
>>47541
It's not racist at all, he's just a triggered faggot.
>>49024
Damn you chinks are ass blasted.
>>44892
>China’s booming coastal cities have also witnessed extreme “healing.” In 2013 a self-styled “ghostbuster’ persuaded a woman to sleep with him by saying that he could only exorcise her demons with his penis.
Kek
>>49121
>Demon slaying cock
>>44891
Homo seagull
>>45274
Damn straight
>>47458
I hate commies almost as much as I hate /pol/
get a job
>>52364
Well aren't you such a special little snowflake.
>>47180
He meant literal in the figurative sense of the word.
