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Curiosities & Strange Tales

An Old Photograph

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This is a photograph from 1995: a Daoist priest sitting on a coffin. It looks like a normal custom in a folk activity, nothing strange about it. The strange thing is that a corpse plus coffin normally weighs around four hundred jin, but after the priest chanted a spell and sat on it, it not only did not feel heavier—it actually felt much lighter.

Written by Master Sanfu on November 23, 2015. Please credit the source if you share.

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