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Wutong Shen
Wutong Shen 五通神 or Wulang Shen 五郎神 are group of five sinister deities from Southern region of China. Their cult began on Tang Dynasty, and usually depicted as one legged demons. By nature wanton and lascivious, the Wutong often disguised themselves as handsome gentlemen to seduce unsuspecting and vulnerable women. Women who were ravished or possessed by these creatures lost consciousness and endured painful fits and convulsions lasting for days, even weeks, which often brought them to the brink of death
==As Controversial Deity==
Wutong are god of sudden and undeserved wealth, who granted money to husbands in exchange for their wives’ favors.〔Vincent Goossaert. The Destruction of Immoral Temples in Qing China. p8〕 However the slightest offense would cause the spirits to repossess whatever largesse they had granted.
In 1685, Tang Bin 湯斌 (1627–1687), the governor of the province of Jiangsu, undertook the destruction of the Wutong temples at Suzhou, the provincial capital, and then throughout the entire province, with an aim to reform local customs and practices. The fact that women participated voluntarily or involuntarily (through possession) in these cults was a determining factor in these campaigns.〔(Richard Von Glahn (2004). The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture. p237 )〕
Aside from their diabolical nature, some regions in China worshiped them as benevolent deity, who bring relief from the scourge of plague
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