
How To Counter Shadow Children & Hat Man, But In Ancient China
https://archive.org/details/alchemymediciner0000geho/page/286/mode/1up
This is from Baopuzi “The Master Who Embraced Simplicity”, Ge Hong (葛洪) was a fellow from Chinese history that has too many things about him to mention off the top of my head. He is from the Eastern Jin dynasty around 320 CE. Though the translation is more modern, I can confirm the Chinese also had another legend about two foot tall folks with red hats, like smurfs !
“The mountain power in the form of a little boy hopping backward on one foot likes to come and harm people. (Little shadow BASTARD). If you hear a human voice at night in the mountains talking loud its name is Ch'i. By knowing this name and shouting it, you will prevent it from harming you. Another name for it is Jo-nei; you may use both these names together.
There is another mountain power, this one in the shape of a drum, colored red, and also with only one foot. Its name is Hui.
Still another power has the shape of a human being nine feet tall, dressed in fur-lined clothes and wearing a large straw hat. Its name is Chin-lei.
Another is like a dragon, variegated in color and with red horns, the name being Fei-fei. Whenever one of these appears, shout its name, and it will not dare harm you.
There are huge trees in the mountains and some of them can speak. However, it is not the tree that speaks, but the power in it named Yün-yang. Shout that name, and all will be well.
If you happen to see light from a fire at night in the mountains, it will always be caused by some tree that has long been dead. Don't let it surprise you.
If you should see there at night an alien (in), it will be the power in copper and iron; if it looks like a man from Ch'in, it will be the power from a hundred-year-old tree.”
So yeah.. make of that what you will. I am sure it’s nothing.