A woman obsessed with feng shui repositioned her local traffic mirror and cause a series of car accidents.
Her neighbours in Shanghai were puzzled for months after a number of road accidents at a sharp turn in a residential compound.
Despite property management re-adjusting the mirror multiple times, problems around that bend would not go away.
Then an investigation uncovered the culprit was a woman living opposite the mirror.
Apparently she had been moving it around to protect her home’s feng shui.
What is feng shui?
Feng shui is the traditional Chinese practice of arranging buildings and objects to achieve a harmonious living environment.
It uses concepts like the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, water), yin-yang, and the bagua map to create balanced,, peaceful, and supportive environments.
The woman’s husband, surnamed Luo, told Shanghai TV that his wife had called on a feng shui master to check their home after suffering ‘bad luck and health’.
The master apparently concluded that it was the traffic mirror who was to blame.
Mirrors are crucial to achieving better feng shui, as it is believed they should not face the door, windows or the bed.
The thinking is that otherwise they could scare away the god of fortune.
Luo said the pair felt the traffic tool was a ‘demon-revealing mirror’, a reference to an item in Chinese mythology which could reveal the true identity of a demon disguised as a human.
He said: ‘We are no demons. We are not happy having a demon-revealing mirror pointing at us.’
Property management tried to find a solution that would satisfy the family and angry locals.
They installed another mirror on the opposite side of the road so that vehicles coming from both sides could observe traffic without affecting Luo’s home.
However after suffering another bout of bad luck, Luo’s wife adjusted both mirrors again.
The property management company has now sealed the position of the mirror with cement.
The police have also told the Luo family that their behaviour may constitute a criminal offence and warned they could be held accountable for any accidents caused by the moved mirrors, the South China Morning Post reported.
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