When it is over, two men are dead: Kai by a lethal kick that shatters his spine and Ch'u by a cowardice suicide.
Special Notes: by J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of the Undead
The chiang-shih is the Chinese version of the vampire. In Chinese belief, each person has two souls, a superior or rational soul and an inferior irrational soul. The superior soul could leave a sleeping body and appear as the bodies double as it roamed about. It could also possess and speak through the body of another. However, if something would happen to the disembodied soul during its journey, its body would suffer.
The inferior soul, on the other hand, was called p'ai or p'o and was that which inhabited the body of a fetus during pregnancy and often lingered in the bodies of the dead. It was thought to preserve the corpse. If the p'ai was strong enough, it could preserve and inhabit a corpse for a length of time, using the body to serve its needs. The body animated by the p'ai was called a chiang-shih.
Usually chiang-shih were created after a particularly violent death, such as a suicide, hanging, drowning, or smothering. It could also be a result of an improper burial, as it was thought that the dead would become restless if their burial was postponed after their death. The chiang-shih were not known to rise from the grave, so their transformation had to take place prior to burial.
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THE CAST:
PERRI "P" REED
DESIRÉ "D" WASHINGTON
HAN SING
BRADLEY O'DAY
ISAAK O'DAY
SUNDIATA M'TUME
PATRICK FRAZIER
LING & MING aka twinz
CRAVEN/Kai