The Record of Spirits and Demons

What people are afraid of is captured by their arrogance, and demons are created by people. There is no provocation among people, and there are no demons on their own. When people abandon the norm, demons will arise, so there are demons. Therefore, it is said: "The fabrication of people is called demons, the nature and spirit of things are called essences, and the lingering soul of people is called ghosts." The heaven and the earth are in a bad mood, and suddenly there are very strange things. The gods are not righteous and become evil, the people's hearts are crazy and become demons, and they are biased towards heresy and become heretics. "Also said: "If the demon is gone, get rid of the person." "The idea is that demons are man-made or transformed into humans.