A coffin at the Looi Im Si temple in Penang supposedly helps to get rid of bad luck to those who believe.
Located in Jelutong, the temple has five coffins but devotees are only allowed to sleep in one of them as the rest are too small.
Devotees of the Taoist temple worship deities that 'oversee' Hades, including Yu Xiao Xian Bo - also known as Bai Wu Chang, one of the two guards who are said to be responsible to bring the dead to the afterworld.
The temple is only open at night - from 8pm until around 2am.
Chu Soon Lock, the secretary of the temple committee, said his grandmother Lim Guat Looi founded the temple after receiving an instruction from 'hell deity' Di Fu Bao Zhang in a dream.
As years went by, the temple worships more and more deities including Ji Gong, Bullhead Horseface (two Hell soldiers), Si Da Jin Gang (Four major bodyguards), Di Zhang Wang Pusa and Mile Buddha.
However, its reasons were unclear, as the history of the century-old temple could not be traced.
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