The Underworld Official Delivers a Child: The Living Must Keep Away

My birth was difficult, and I didn’t arrive safely until the third night, when a group of paper figures carried a coffin to our house.

The day after I was born, nine people in the village died.

Zhang Banxian said I was possessed by a snake demon and would bring death to the whole village, so he had to perform a ritual to drive it out. But as he performed the ritual in front of everyone, the crooked-hearted Zhang Banxian suddenly bled from all seven orifices and died.