"I'll hit your tiny head, hit you until you can't even breathe; I'll hit your tiny hands, hit you until you can't even steal with your eyes; I'll hit your tiny feet, hit you so hard you won't be able to walk..."
Beneath the footbridge, a sorceress specialized in hitting paper effigies for people, lit three sticks of incense, inserted her hands into the incense burner, and then clasped them together in prayer. Only after praying did she pick up an old slipper and started to forcefully smack it against a human-shaped piece of yellow paper, reciting the incantations for hitting the paper effigy as she did so.
Hitting paper effigies is a kind of witchcraft ritual popular in Hong Kong and Guangdong, intended to expel and take revenge on so-called "malevolent people."
