"Magical Medicine"

pp. 82-83 Daemon-Statutes of Nu:-c^>in (by the Caelestial Master C^an Tao-lin)

p.

style-name

ordinary name

family-name

personal-name

corner-dir. on Mt. T>ai-S^an

nature

82

High Lord of the Daemones

Heaven's Successor

   

southeast

1000-feet-tall, reporting to heaven

 

Thrice-Antient Daemon of South Village

Daemon of the 5 Ways

C^u: "carriage"

Ni "hidden"

northwest

to summon the dying by his written orders to killer-daemones

 

Headless Daemon in the Clouds

Dead General of Broken Armies

Li

San-k>o

 

is followed by the 5 Dipper-constellation daemones

83

Daemon of Great Harmony

   

P>i

 

bodiless head: its exhalation formeth clouds

   
   

Xiu-constellations (AChChSh)

   

p.

#

 
 

mountain-spectre

103

21st

"mountains"

 

tree-spectre

 

22nd

 
 

stones

 

23rd

"jade"

 

tigers

 

24th

"carpentry" {either a carpenter or a panther was father to Yes^uwa< Mas^yah}

 

snakes

104

25th

"clothing" [snakes shed their skins, like doffing clothing]

 

monkeys

 

26th

"food" {the monkey Vr.s.a-kapi stole food in the R.c Veda}

 

foxes

 

27th

"actors" [in Chinese & Japanese folklore, foxes praetend to be people]

 

twisted trees

 

28th

"Chariot Cross-board"

 

5 sorts of puddle

 

[none]

 
 

male & female, of debauchery

94

1st

"Horn" [horniness = debauchery?]

 

5 sorts of pestilence

96

2nd

"epidemics"

 

house

 

4th

"Chamber", "Hall"

 

eating-utensils

97

5th

 
 

toilet

 

6th

"Tail" [from under tail come faeces]

 

well

98

8th

"Machinery" [hoist for well-bucket?]

 

hearth

 

9th

"Accumulated Fire"

 

bed

99

10th

"concubine"

 

sound of drums

 

11th

"Emptiness" [hollowness of drums?]

 

pipes of the reed-organ

 

12th

"reclaiming land" [by draining cane-brakes?]

 

ditches

 

13th

"public works" [trench around fort?]

 

drains

100

15th

"canals and waterways"

 

spears

 

16th

 
 

knives

 

17th

 
 

armor

 

18th

 
 

the 1000-year-old White Bone Daemon

101

19th

 
 

the 100-year-old White Bone Daemon

102

20th

"Turtle Beak" [beak-cartilage is similar to bone; Galapago turtles live 100 years]

 

the 50-year-old daemon

 

[none]

 

"the text reiterates that for every living being in the world, there are a thousand million demons ..."

[AChChSh = Ho Peng Yoke: The Astronomical Chapters of the Chin Shu. Paris: Mouton & Co., MCMLXVI.]

pp. 93-94 Spirit-Spells of the Abyss -- s[ahasra] = 10^3; m[yriad] = 10^4

p.

the __

the "Great Kings of Malignant Wraiths of the __ Heavens"

lead a troop of __ myriads

that specialize in spreading __ ailments

p. 93 symptoms of pestilential color-headed killer-demons

93

?

3

48 m

red

"capturing"

 

80 m

6

700 m

white

"Sudden Turmoil"

94

60 m

9

33 s

black

"government officials"

 

?

36

70 m

yellow

diarrhoea

 

?

7

9,000,000 m

blue

[green] swellings

p. 93 90,000,000 m "great gods" provide cures

p. 100 the "five caverns" (instead of the later 3) as classes of literature of the early Lin-pao canon

#

"__ Cavern"

1st

Primordial

2nd

Abyss

3rd

Void

4th

Numinous

5th

Nil

p. 101 the "spell of the star T>ien-p>en ("Caelestial Beacon")" in the Declarations of the Perfect Ones of the S^an-c^>in

"Blue of tongue, green of tooth,

The four-eyed ancient ...

4-eyed bear-masked funeral tomb-consecrator; cf. Sardinian (Nuraghi) 4-eyed god; Dahomean 4-eyed death-god [I]Ku

Let heaven's cavalry soar upward,

Overawe the north with lances at the ready.

Cf. Zaratustrian heavenly cavalry

Assign three hundred thousand infantry

On guard about my nine-walled citadel."

Cf. concentrically-walled Hagmatana (in Media); concentrically-walled Sacsahuaman (in Peru)

   

How deities slay a daemon:

 

"May the Heaven-Snatcher with his great axe strike off his head and all his other limbs,

 

The Flaming Monarch crackle his blood,

Cf. Hephaistos

The Northern Dipper roast his bones,

 

The Four Luminaries snap his skeleton,

 

The Ape of Heaven wipe out his clan."

Cf. Hanumant battling Raks.asa-s in Lanka

p. 112-113 Man.i-ratna Book -- types of daemones

 

of __

p. 112

army-camps

 

post-stations

   
 

those who died __

 

in prison

 

in bondage

 

by water and drowning

 

by fire and burning

 

away from home and have not, as of yet, been buried

 

in the marketplace

 

on the road

 

of thirst

 

of hunger

 

of coughing

 

of cold

 

by a weapon

 

by blood [sepsis?]

 

by rotting meat [gangrene?]

 

by being beaten

 

in a fight

 

from being struck with a staff

 

from being strangled

 

by hanging themselves

 

by stabbing themselves

 

by an enemy's hand

 

by violence

   
 

who __

 

cause the skin to putrefy

 

cut off people's hair

 

drink people's blood

 

fly

 

ride on horseback

 

ride in carriages

 

go on foot

 

"encounter resentment"

   
 

as __ (substance)-god

 

mountain

 

stone

 

earth

   
 

in the __

 

seaside

 

sea

 

dams & bridges

 

canals & locks

 

way, and outside the way

   
 

of the __ tribesfolk

 

Hu-i (western)

 

C^>ian-li (northwestern)

   
 

__-sprite goblin-daemones

 

tree

 

insect

 

bird-or-beast

   
 

of locations

 

within the gate

 

outside the gate

 

within the door

 

outside the door

 

in the well

 

in the hearth

 

in stagnant ponds

 

in the toilet

   
 

of __

 

fan-tao (sorcery)

p. 113

ku-tao (toxic envenomation)

 

those who fail to act deferentially as official servants and family members

 

who falsely claim rank and status not their own

pp. 115-121 Book of Consecration

 

numerics

p. 115

4 Great Kings

 

33 Gods

 

35 Dragon-Kings

 

28 Great Spirit-Generals

 

2 Spirit-Generals' mothers

 

3 Spirit-Generals' daughters

 

24 Daemon-Commanders

   
 

Mei-Kuei ("Goblin-Daemones")

 

Deep Sands

 

Floating Hill

 

51 others

   
 

additions to list of daemones in the Man.i-ratna: daemons __

 

that died by overeating (praeceding those that died of hunger)

 

under eaves of house

 

of the 4 walls

 

of choking [specifically] on food

p. 116

of gold & silver

 

of the moment of sitting-down

   
 

colored daemones

 

striped

 

pink

 

purple

   
 

the 49 Kuei ("Daemons"), as distinct from Mei-Kuei

 

aethereal-soul interrogators

 

beaters of spermatic souls

 

who delight in strife

 

who speak loudly, laugh loudly, and play greatly

 

who grasp & pummel

 

who push & squeeze

 

who hide in ambush at the Gate of Life

 

who gobble people's vital essence

 

who drink people's blood

 

who butcher human flesh

 

who gnaw on human bones

 

who strike people's bones

 

who gobble people's 5 viscera

 

who eat people's entrails

 

who pluck forth people's sinews

 

who shrink people's veins

 

who destroy human foeti

 

who cause difficult births

 

who delight in anger

 

who delight in hatred

 

who go along holding swords

 

who go along holding sticks

 

who are crooked & bent

 

who go along gazing upward

 

who are split at the waist

 

who look backward

 

who go along craning their necks

 

[who have] broken-marrow

 

whose bodies have crumbled to dust

 

blocked & obstructed

 

with down-hanging heads

 

of 5 blows

 

who strike the heart [heart-attack]

 

of chills & shivers

 

of fevers & fainting

 

in sand

 

among cliffs & mounds

 

who march boldly along

 

who raise their arms

 

head-rubbing

 

white-headed

 

red-headed

 

yellow-headed

 

headless

 

fire-belching

 

who delight in scorching people

 

of "the radiance of blood"

   
 

the 49 S^an-c^in ("Mountain-Essences") [as summarized:]

 

many-colored

 

headless, or with a variety of animal-heads

 

in the form of serpents or of men & women

 

with 4 eyen or 49 eyen

 

crying or sighing or stumbling

 

fighting or spewing forth poisonous vapors in a wide spectrum of colors

   
 

the 98 Kuei [also as summarized:]

 

those responsible for tbe 5 wen ("pestilences")

 

those that have the 5 sorts of c^u ("infestation") in their care

p. 117

that died in falling out of bed

 

who delight in serving as district-magistrates

   
 

the 47 [more, further] Goblin-Daemones

 

"not only within the hearth but above it and on all four sides as well"

 

[instead of a Kuei] of the toilet

 

who lick people's heads

 

who dwell in the bed-curtains, the screen, the rafters, or within the chamber

 

who cause people to vomit

 

who gobble excrement

 

who cause homesickness (?)

 

who cause evil infections

p. 116 on the "two distinct classes," interrogators of aethereal-souls and beaters of spermatic souls, according to the authoress (M.S.) "the activities of both groups presumably take place while the owner of the soul is asleep, during his dream-life".

p. 117 these daemones "number 60,0049 in all."

pp. 120-121 Secret Essentials for Treating Dhyana Ailments (of 5th century)

 

Daemones in forms of animals etc. appearing to meditators "when they are practicing their meditation at a tranquil place" ["With visitors such as these, the meditator may go mad, flee from his hermitage, and run wildly about, quite out of control." (p. 121)]

p. 120

"black or red rats that scratch at the meditator's heart or tickle his feet, hands, or ears;

 

may produce the cries of birds, the moaning ..., or subtle whisperings; ...

 

fox-phantoms, some of them taking the form of brides, richly appareled, who will stroke and caress the meditator's body and speak of things contrary to the Law. ...

p. 121

dogs, howling incessantly, ...

 

hawks and various kinds of birds, making all manner of noises, from whispers to great shouts. ...

 

small children, in ranks of hundreds and thousands -- or ... by tens or fives or ones, twos, or threes -- making various noises. ...

 

mosquitoes, flies, gnats, lice, or serpents that may enter his ears, humming like a queen bee, or go into his eyes ..."

   
 

the 63 "names" of Bhuti ("daemoness") having a face like a p>i-p>a (Chinese lute), 4 eyen, 2 mouths, its entire head shooting forth flames, beating itself under the armpits. ["This Bhuti is an evil yaks.i; she is also called the Demon of Dreams. When you see her in a dream and you have a loss of vital essence [semen] ..."

 

"in the wilds, it is called ... of the Wilds"

 

"between the bed and the coverlet, its name is ... Crawls on Its Belly"

 

[2 names which "resemble ... Deep Sands and Floating Hill"]

 

goblins & phantoms

 

pus-eaters & spittle-eaters

 

asses' ears & tiger-heads & kitten's meows

 

white rats & fox-phantoms

pp. 144-149 Dharan.i Book of At.avaka (guardian-deity of Japanese imperial house, p. 144)

p. 144

exorcism: tie up the patient, make as if to beat him

   

p 145

talisman, guaranteeing:-

 

freedom from bad dreams,

 

victory in battle,

 

enter water without drowning, enter fire without burning

   
 

the 8 spirit-sigils

p. 146

1st

"heart"-sigil (to be inked with bezoar, impressed on bamboo-membrane):-

 

doeth away with ailments,

 

eliminating obstacles,

 

moveth mountains, {cf. Gospel -- "faith ..."}

 

halteth watercourses,

 

extinguisheth fire,

 

draineth the sea {cf. Rev. of St. John -- "no more sea"}

p. 147

2nd

ensureth complete command of the 8 divisions of the spirit-armies:-

 

to summon for interrogation the spirit-kings of the 4 quarters (directions)

 

a summons to the water-spirits

 

3rd

small, round "golden disk" sigil

 

4th

large, square "lunar disk of the Asura-s"

p. 148

5th

sigil of Hound & Leaping Snake (lion-resembling Hound of Heaven, above head of coiling dragon; in Japan, "Hound of Heaven" is long-nosed, winged denizen of mountains, noted for lechery, p. 148):-

 

subduing all poisonous drugs & all disease-causing daemones

 

7th

sigil "of the solar -disk's samadhi-flames", viz. the 3-foot crow surrounded by flames (to be engraved in copper):-

 

"Whenever you wish to go somewhere, you simply point the seal in the desired direction ..."

p. 149

8th

"sword"-sigil (depict with bezoar on square silk: gods bound by oath to serve):-

 

in order to __

call upon __

 

beat daemones

the Black King of Heaven

 

overcome all poisons & dragons

the big-bellied Kumbha-an.d.a daemon

 

conquer the devils of the 4 quarters

Caelestial Devil P>o-hsu:n

 

overcome tree-goblins

the Vajra-sattva-s

 

conquer disease within the body

Kun.d.ali

 

deal with robbers

Sangha Man.i-bhadra

 

conquer mountain-gods

Mucilinda

 

promoting life & seeking profit

Caelestial King of Merit

 

to accompany thee at all times in all thy comings and goings

the 14 Raks.asa-Kings

texts concerning wooden sigils, including of jujube-wood

p.

 

pp.

 

p.

 

173

Treatise on the Five Sciences

152-154

Book of the Janguli Woman

155

Red Script of the Three Registers of Divinity

 

5. aloeswood

       
 

4. pith of jujube wood

152

in front of Janguli is "a boy dressed in blue" [= Azure Lad of the Eastern Sea]

1st sigil: carven "from a jujube tree that has been struck by lightning."

5 wooden sigils (to be carven in "wood from a jujube tree that has been frightened by a dragon.") their effects are:-

 

3. red jujube wood

"supplanting the moon's light"

"levitation a hundred feet into the air"

[by "earth" sigil alone:] "walk on water and cross river and streams"

 

2. white sandalwood

2nd sigil: carven "from white sandalwood"

   
   

154

the Janguli maiden is: green, a dragon-woman, with 7 heads, 4 arms, the serpentine adornments, and fire streaming from her body-pores:-

 

{the authoress (M.S.) here (p. 319, n. 53) is inclined to bring into account the [Hina-yana] suggestion that a man "put his penis into the mouth of" this cobra[-goddess] rather than into her "vagina."}

   

throw bowlful of enchanted water on patient

   
 

1. peach-tree root

       

p. 155 "In Tantric Buddhism, the finger-seal applied to the body of course imprints a "seed-syllable" (bija-mantra)"

pp. 158-159 Rites of the Vajra-sattva of Impure Traces for Exorcizing the Hundred Weirds

p.

   
   

accomplishment

the means for this

158

 

drying up the sea

copper dragon

   

causing rivers to reverse their courses

elephant modelled in "parthian" incense, i.e., gum guggul

   

to stop poisonous dragons

1st finger-sigil

   

"all the world's evil demons will flock to you in clouds and reveal their true forms"

2nd finger-sigil

   

lay ban of quietude on mountain

3rd finger-sigil

158-159

 

cause vajra to rise off the ground

invoke Ucchus.ma "Leftovers" (of a meal) [= Maha-bala, p. 156]

       
     
 

sigil

its effect

159

1st

obtain:-

Knowledge of the Heart

Spontaneous Knowledge

Knowledge of Former Lives

 

2nd

"it will cause everyone to love you"

 

3rd

"you will be able to fly up into space and go anywhere you wish."

 

4th

"it will enable you to travel 3 million leagues a day without anyone seeing you."

Michel Strickmann (ed. by Bernard Faure): Chinese Magical Medicine. Stanford U. Pr, 2002.