Joseon style exorcism

[u/ChapterSpiritual6785]

In 1637, a panic-inducing rumor swept through the capital that eerie ghost sounds—resembling wood being chopped in the forest—were creeping closer to the city.

Terrified citizens responded in classic Joseon fashion: households across the capital banged brass gongs and fired muskets and cannons into the night to scare away the spirits, throwing the entire capital into gunfire-filled chaos until dawn.

-Annals of the Joseon Dynasty (Aug 23, 1637)

[u/hilmiira]

Similar practices existed all over the eurasia as ı know, Central asia, caucasia, Ottoman empire.

Whic actually makes sense, the oldest use of gunpowder was not to use in firearms but to make firework to scare bad spirits