Chapter Two
House SpiritPeople said that if we sleep in front of the house spirit's home, they will drag us away.
I wanted to test whether it was true or not. So one afternoon, I put a nylon folding bed in front of the house spirit's shrine, then I climbed to sleep on it.
I had heard that the house spirit would not come to us directly, they would come in our dreams; hence, I tried to close my eyes to fall asleep.
I stayed in bed for more than twenty minutes, but I could not sleep, or even shut my eyes. My feeling seemed to tell me that I needed to move away, but I tried to against this feeling, I told myself to keep staying here - because I wanted to see how the house spirit dragged me away.
But the stronger I tried to refuse, the stronger I felt unwell inside my body. I could not describe that feeling. I just knew that I could not stay peacefully.
At last, I was defeated. I moved the folding bed away from the shrine.
Strange. Just moved away, immediately, the hardship inside my body was removed.
After that event, I believed that I was really chased away by my house spirit. And I never slept before his shrine anymore.
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