One university student from Kaohsiung says that one reason elders from around there still insist on "escorting the soul" of the deceased (in part by having someone sit by the coffin) is to prevent a cat from jumping over the coffin, thereby bringing the corpse back to life as a zombie.
一位來自高雄的大學生說，至今地方父老堅持為死人守靈的目的之一，是要防止貓跳過棺材引死屍坐起的「炸（詐）屍」。