On Witchcrafts inRecords of Huayang Kingdom

As the first local chronicles, Records of Huayang Kingdom has kept a large amount of materials concerning witchcrafts. From the pre-Qin to Wei and Jin periods, our ancestors in Southwest China dealt with interpersonal relationship and the one between human and nature through witchcrafts which were diversified in forms and effective in practice and had brought great help to both common people and governors.