Chapter 330
The three slowed down . Before Master Bai could finish, the sound of a nursery rhyme came from behind them . Master Bai turned to look behind him . The two kids with red paint on their faces did not come close, like they were afraid of something . They just stood a distance away to look at Chen Ge's group .
"Talk as we move . " Master Bai dragged Ol' Wei and Chen Ge to move forward . He combed his mind to come up with the stories that his father had once told him . "These kinds of villages deep in the mountain will be filled with various monsters at night . Other than the Pillar Ghost, Sedan Kids, Wall Spirit, the more difficult ones include the Pillow Ghost, Mummy Wraps, and Skull Lantern . "
"Skull Lantern? Can you tell us specifically what these three look like?" Chen Ge and Ol' Wei had not heard of this before .
"In these villages, the pillows that people sleep on have to be burned after the person passes away . This is to prevent the formation of a Pillow Ghost . This kind of ghost is normally the lingering spirit of the dead person remaining in the pillow . If one falls asleep on these pillows, they will be tormented by nightmares and even hear the person whispering in their ears .
"If you're lucky, you might sleep until morning, but if you're not, you might wake up in the middle of the night and find someone lying beside you, sharing the pillow, and that person will be the Pillow Ghost . " The senior did not have a talent in storytelling; the description was rather dry . However, Chen Ge made a not of the details of this Pillow Ghost—perhaps he could use it in his Haunted House in the future .
"Pillow Ghost cannot stray too far from the pillows, so as long as we don't enter these houses, it should be fine . The things that really concern us are the Mummy Wraps and Skull Lantern," Master Bai said carefully . He was worried these thing might really appear in real life .
"Mummy Wraps are more difficult to deal with compared to Pillow Ghosts . These are the clothes that villagers put the dead person in when they carry out the burial . There are taboos and traditions to abide by for the clothes that dead bodies are buried in . If they are not followed closely, it might form the Mummy Wraps . They will wander the street when the Yin energy gathers . They look like a person, but it is actually only a layer of cloth .
"They will attack by wrapping themselves around the body of a living person . They make the living person wear the clothes of a dead body and use it to control the living human . If you see someone wearing a new set of clothes but they smell weird, remember to stay away from them because they might be wearing a dead person's clothes . "
Master Bai looked around him . The ceremony was still ongoing, and the streets were empty . Only the two Sedan Kids trailed behind them with hesitation . Master Bai hugged Ah Qing's baby and sped up . He continued to explain, "The skull lantern is the scariest ghost from all the stories my father has told me .
"No one knows how they're formed, but people have seen them inside abandoned villages or places where high concentration of resentment gathers . Those rushing in the night would see lights inside a village . They rushed over, thinking it's human activity, but the light kept moving away from them .
"They called for the light to stop, and it did . When they got close, it was actually a floating head, and it was biting a lantern with its teeth . According to legend, Skull Lanterns are spirit trying to seek help, so they float about with the lantern . "
After Master Bai finished the last story, he realized that neither Ol' Wei nor Chen Ge replied . "What's wrong with the two of you? I still know quite a bit of this village folklore . "
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