Case file · Haunting
Chen Shou-niang, Tainan's fiercest ghost
A widow tortured to death by her in-laws in Daoguang-era Tainan for refusing to sell herself became a vengeful ghost who, the story goes, killed the clerk responsible and haunted the county office.
1840 CE · 22.99, 120.20 · status: legend
The account
Lian Heng's General History of Taiwan tells the case; her tablet stands in the Hall of Chastity at the Tainan Confucius Temple, and it is said a Guanyin mediation finally calmed her.