Around the time Cai Mo[1] was appointed to serve as Grand Master for Splendid Happiness, he was at home and suddenly heard the sound of weeping and wailing coming from the southeast, as if someone had just died. Soon after, he saw a young girl, a dead person who also wailed at their separation. He did not understand what was going on, but feared that this was the result of a family conflict. Suddenly, he heard the cry of an immortal soul, and soon after witnessed the living girl ascend through thin air into the heavens above. The meaning of this could only be extremely inauspicious. Before long he fell ill, and then died.
From Lingyizhi.
Moreover 又
Someone reported that Mo was seated at the place of honour in the government hall when he suddenly heard a voice ‘calling back the mortal soul’[2] from the neighbours to the left. He thus left the hall and went to the front to look. Straight away he saw a newly bereaved family, and an elderly woman, wearing a yellow half-sleeved garment of silk gauze on top, and a pale green skirt below, floating in the air and ascending into the heavens. He heard a cry, and turned his head to look, then came three cries, and he turned his head each time. He paced up and down for a long time, and when the sounds finally stopped, there was nothing more to be seen. He questioned the family attending the burial, and they told him that the clothing worn by the deceased was just as he had described it.
From Youminglu.
Li Fang 李昉, et al., Taiping guangji 太平廣記 (Extensive Gleanings from the Era of Great Harmony), 10 vols (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1961), vii, 320.2533:
蔡謨
蔡謨徵為光祿大夫。在家。忽聞東南啼哭聲。有若新死。便見一少年女。死〈明鈔本死作此。〉人並離〈明鈔本離作籬〉啼哭。不解所為。恐是人家忿爭耳。忽聞呼魂聲。便見生〈明鈔本生作此〉女。從空中去上天。意甚惡之。少時疾患。遂薨。出靈異志
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一說。謨在廳事上坐。忽聞鄰左復魄聲。乃出庭前望。正見新死之家。有一老嫗。上著黃羅半袖。下著縹裙。飄然升天。聞一喚聲。輒廻顧。三喚三顧。徘徊良久。聲既絕。亦不復見。問喪家。云。亡者衣服如此。出幽明錄
[1] On Cai Mou 蔡謨, 281-356 CE, courtesy name Daoming 道明, see Jinshu 晉書 77.2033-41.
[2] A funeral ritual involving entreating the deceased to return to their body before burial.
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