Catching corpses in western Hunan is a real thing.

Just not as mysterious as the legend, the Qing Dynasty, there are rumors widely circulated in western Hunan "to catch the corpse", that is, to catch the corpse people use "secret technology", will be dead people's bodies back to their hometowns, so that they are in the ground in peace. As we all know, in ancient times, transportation was not convenient, so if a person who died away from home wanted to return to his home, someone had to be able to transport his body back to his hometown.

But in ancient times there were no cars, airplanes, to transport people back from thousands of miles away, the difficulty can be imagined, gradually, a kind of people to drive the corpse as a profession appeared, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the technology of this corpse transportation is widely used in the Sichuan Province to bring the corpses of the immigrants in Hunan back to their homes.

Becoming a corpse-driver

Xiangxi folk, since ancient times, there has been a corpse-driver industry, learning this industry, must have two conditions: a bold, and the second is a good body. And, must worship teacher. Catching corpse craftsman never indiscriminately accept apprentices. Apprenticeship by the parents of the first set of notes, and then the necromancer must be interviewed.

Generally speaking, to see the full 16 years of age, height 1.7 meters or more, at the same time there is a very special conditions, looks to look ugly. Catch the corpse maker first let the applicants look at the sun in the sky, and then rotate, and then suddenly stop, you have to immediately distinguish between east and west, north and south, if you can not distinguish, can not be hired. Because you do not distinguish between east and west, north and south at this time, it means that you can not distinguish the direction of the night to catch a corpse, can not catch a corpse. Next, the necromancers want you to find things, pick the burden.

Because the corpse is not a living person, after all, meet the steeper slope, the corpse is not good up. The maker will have to carry the bodies one by one up the slope. Finally, there is an interview, which is the necromancer will be a piece of tung tree leaves in the mountains on the hill, dark night let you go alone to get back, only then, can show that you have the courage to be competent necromancers. If you pass these three hurdles successfully, you will have achieved the possibility of being an apprentice corpse-driver.