新城諸生王啟後者，方伯中宇公象坤曾孫。見一婦人入室，貌肥黑不揚。笑近坐榻，意甚褻。王拒之，不去。由此坐臥輒見之。而意堅定，終不搖。婦怒，批其頰有聲，而亦不甚痛。婦以帶懸梁上，捽與並縊。王不覺自投梁下，引頸作縊狀。人見其足不履地，挺然立空中，即亦不能死。自是病顛，忽曰：「彼將與我投河矣。」望河狂奔，曳之乃止。如此百端，日常數作，術藥罔效。一日，忽見有武士綰鎖而入，怒叱曰：「樸誠者汝何敢擾！」即縶婦項，自櫺中出。纔至窗外，婦不復人形，目電閃，口血赤如盆。憶城隍廟門中有泥鬼四，絕類其一焉。於是病若失。
新城诸生王启后者，方伯中宇公象坤曾孙。见一妇人入室，貌肥黑不扬。笑近坐榻，意甚亵。王拒之，不去。由此坐卧辄见之。而意坚定，终不摇。妇怒，批其颊有声，而亦不甚痛。妇以带悬梁上，捽与并缢。王不觉自投梁下，引颈作缢状。人见其足不履地，挺然立空中，即亦不能死。自是病颠，忽曰：「彼将与我投河矣。」望河狂奔，曳之乃止。如此百端，日常数作，术药罔效。一日，忽见有武士绾锁而入，怒叱曰：「朴诚者汝何敢扰！」即絷妇项，自櫺中出。才至窗外，妇不复人形，目电闪，口血赤如盆。忆城隍庙门中有泥鬼四，绝类其一焉。于是病若失。
Wang Qihou, one of the licentiates of Xincheng, was the great-grandson of the provincial commissioner Wang Xiangkun, styled Zhongyu. One day he saw a woman come into his room, fat, dark and plain. She came up smiling and sat on his couch, very lewd in her manner. Wang sent her off; she would not go. From then on he saw her whenever he sat or lay down. But his mind was firm, and he never wavered. The woman grew angry and slapped his face with a crack, though it did not hurt much. She hung her sash from the beam, seized him by the hair and pulled him to hang himself beside her. Without knowing what he did, Wang went and put himself under the beam and stretched out his neck as if he were hanging. People saw that his feet did not touch the ground: he stood stiff in the air. Yet even so he could not die. After that he went mad. All at once he would say, “She is going to jump into the river with me!” and run wildly for the river, and he stopped only when they dragged him back. It went on in a hundred ways, several times a day, and neither spells nor medicine did any good. One day he suddenly saw an armed man come in with a chain looped in his hand, who shouted in anger, “This is an honest, simple man. How dare you torment him!” He chained the woman by the neck and went out with her through the window lattice. As soon as she was outside the window she no longer had a human shape: her eyes flashed like lightning, and her mouth was blood-red and as big as a basin. Wang remembered that inside the gate of the City God’s temple there were four clay ghosts, and she looked exactly like one of them. With that his illness was gone.