My mother's elder sister has yin yang eyes. Since young she could see spirits. To her it is such a common state of affairs that she hardly stops to think about it. She is not scared, neither does it bother her. She claims that spirits go about in their own business and does not come into human spheres much during the day.
When she was a child, she would talk about it more. And she found it unusual that her brothers and sisters could not see what she could. My grand ma related how she brought her brood of children to hide in the jungle during Japanese occupation. They lived in caves and roamed the jungle looking for edible plants and trapping small animals. One day they were crossing a stream and my aunt pulled my grandma's sleeve and whispered about seeing an aborigine woman leading two small children across the stream. My grandma turned and could not see anybody. As an answer, she told my aunt that aborigine folks also need to look for food, times were hard.
I used to visit this aunt during the school holidays. Around that time was a temple feast day. Everyone in the village would turn up in the temple to have a free vegetarian meal. I particularly like the vegetarian pig intestines cooked in mild pineapple curry. One year, I went with my aunt and family to join in the feast. After the meal, she hurried us home way before sunset. Normally, we would stay on to see the opera. As soon as we got home, she closed her main door and drew all the curtains. The next day, she explained why we could not stay, there were spirits idling in the vicinity of the temple. A few days later, children from the neighborhood who lingered on after dark fell ill and did not recover even after they finished the medication doctors prescribed. One of them had to be taken to the temple medium for healing.
*yin means of the moon, yang means of the sun
Here in South East Asia, Taoist, Hindus, Animist, even some Buddhists deals directly with spirits.
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