Modern Tales of the Strange: We Worship a Northeast Tiger at Home

[Ghost hunting, local deities, strange tales, folk customs, first-person narration] Everyone knows about the Ma Xian and the household guardian spirits, right? The disciples’ families usually worship fox, yellow weasel, snake, and python spirits, but my family… worships the Mountain Lord! A Northeast tiger that has been cultivating for who knows how many years! Remember that nursery rhyme? “Hook pinkies~ hang yourself, and don’t break your promise for a hundred years!” That saying didn’t come from nowhere… Demons and monsters are forbidden from appearing in the mortal world for a hundred years, but… the hundred years are almost up… and those things can’t hold back any longer…