Volume One: Ruins of the Tang Dynasty, Chapter 1: The Whole

must have been possessed by a malevolent spirit. Mother would then hire someone to perform a ritual to exorcise the evil, and even tie my stepfather up to prevent him from moving an inch...You'll ne...In May of 884 AD, on the official road fifty li southwest of Bianzhou (modern-day Kaifeng) the Shatuo King before him This Shatuo King, at age eight, shot coins with his arrows; at ten, he shot willow leaves; at fifteen, he became a cavalry commander. When he was displaced and fled to Tata...