Chuck Bryant

You're doing great.

That's right.

And if not, then you're just going to be cursed to wander the earth, pretty upset, harassing people, possessing people.

And here's the thing.

If you lived in rural China back then and you were a rural peasant, you probably died pretty close to home because you didn't travel that much.

So it wasn't that big of a deal.

But occasionally you might find yourself away from home and you need to get walked back.

And this is a tradition that dates back to like 1616 and continued into the 20th century.

Yeah, for days, weeks, months, depending on how far away they were from home, the priests would carry a lantern that was a light both day and night, although they would usually do this at night because, as we'll see, it was very bad luck for residents of villages that they would go through to see this kind of thing happening.

So eventually they would have people, runners out in front even saying like, hey, we got a corpse coming.

I think they were banging a gong.

To kind of warn everybody, the corpse is behind the priest, like we said, very, very tall, dressed in a black robe, and just following the directions of the priest saying, yo-ho, yo-ho.

You know, it's just so the corpse knew which way to go, go.

Yeah, that's right.

I'm going to take a quick moment, since you mentioned cat, to tell people who have not yet seen that I have a new kitten that I think we're going to keep now.

And it's all on my Instagram at Chuck the Podcaster, the storyofolivia.com.

being rescued from the undercarriage of a car and very sick with worms and bacterium and seemingly near death and had her little butthole stitched shut and then unstitched.

It was quite a ride.

We thought we were going to lose her.

Then we nursed her back to health.