Villain Hitting. A Chinese Guangdong/Hong Kong folk sorcery. Demon exorcising. Symbolic objects such as a shoe is used as the villain hitter to strike paper doll villains.

a Chinese custom akin to a Voodoo doll, where a person can hire someone to use a wooden block or shoe to hit a man-shaped piece of paper with another person's name and birth date (or other details) on it, believing that it can curse one's enemy with bad luck