The old woman of the Liang Dynasty can be regarded as a blessing or a curse. Why did the magistrate behead her when she came?

Because the old woman is playing tricks, those disasters are actually intentional. She pretended to calculate the disaster first, telling when the house in a certain place would catch fire and when the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep in a certain place would be lost and stolen. When the time came, the people found that it had really come true. And these are actually done by the old lady on purpose, in order to make people believe that she can predict good or bad luck through divination.

After the old lady became famous, her fame spread to the new magistrate Qian Zhifu. So, he didn't believe it, and sent someone to the old woman's house to ask about the recent disaster. The old woman said there would be a great disaster and plague. Hearing this, the magistrate made people cut the old woman with a knife.

At first, the people were still very scared, thinking that killing such a fortune teller would lead to disaster punishment, but since then, there has been no disaster at all, and the people will understand that the so-called disasters are deceptive. In ancient times, so-called fortune tellers and witches were mostly good at playing tricks. Take advantage of people's easy belief in ghosts and fear, and rely on their ability to predict disasters to defraud more or less money.

The main reason is that the new magistrate does not believe in evil or ghosts. On the basis of this mentality, it is not difficult to find the close relationship between the disaster and the old woman by calm thinking. Therefore, Qian Zhifu believes that as long as the old woman is beheaded, the so-called disaster in her mouth will disappear and will not happen again. Predicting disaster is to use some so-called methods of asking God, sending ghosts, or wearing some utensils to help the people break their money and avoid disaster. This is the usual method of fortune tellers like them. The judge can see clearly, and he is a clear-headed person.