#chinese afterlife

There’s an expression, 把你这猢狲剥皮锉骨，将神魂贬在九幽之处 – “chop up your bones and banish your soul to the Ninth Hell.”   According to many descriptions of Diyu (地獄), the punitive form of afterlife in many Chinese and Chinese diasporic Buddhist cultures, this is what happens to souls in the ninth level. It’s a punishment for spreading gossip. 

The clip is from the Korean horror comedy 구미호 /  FOX WITH NINE TAILS (1994, D:  Park Heon-soo).