...nding in the rain and licking her hand. She is described as a goddess from China's Mount Wushan, who is a cloud in the morning and rain in the evening. She
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...(Wade-Giles:T'ien kou; 天狗; "celestial dog") is a legendary creature from China.
...ry is that the Chinese derived its name from a destructive meteor that hit China sometime in the 6th century BC.
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...t undiscovered hominid residing in the mountainous and forested regions of China's remote Hubei province.
*[http://www.rfthomas.clara.net/papers/living9.html Wildmen of China]
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...this usage within both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan as the symbol of nation is not common. Instead, it is generally u
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...monster similar to the tiger, reportedly living in the Fujian Province of China.
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'''Gin-Sung''' is a Asian type of giant hair hominid that inhabits central China. According to reports the Gin-Sung has a long and shaggy black to dark gray
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...Korean) or Lake Tianchi, within the Changbai Mountains of Jilin Province, China, not far from the North Korean border.
...ted in the north-eastern Jilin province near the border of North Korea, in China. The lake is 1,243 feet deep and has had some volcanic activity in the last
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Appearance and legends are similar as for the Wildman of China; it is described as being approximately six feet tall and completely covere
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...Girl's Tabletop Mountain, Lutemute Mountain and Jade Mountain in Southern China.
...e Hooded Pitohui of New Guinea has poisonous feathers. A recent article in China has been published bringing up the question if the Zhen bird could have rea
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...jpg|thumb|right|250px|''Xian'' riding dragons, from ''Myths and Legends of China'', 1922, E.T.C. Werner.]]
*Eberhard, Wolfram. 1968. ''The Local Cultures of South and East China''. E. J. Brill.
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The Jinmenju grows in remote mountain valleys in China. The jinmenju's fruit appear to be human heads. The faces are always smilin
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...with the mythological yellow dragon that is associated with the Emperor of China.
==In China==
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* Xing Tian has appeared through China's recent online gaming boom as a monster the player must defeat. In ''Shura
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In China, the same entity is called '''Batsu''' (魃).
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* Mackenzie, Donald A. 1923. Myths of China and Japan. Gresham.
* Visser, Marinus Willern de. 1913. The Dragon in China and Japan. J. Müller.
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...-nanning.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Fenghuang sculpture, Nanning city, Guangxi, China.]]
...re-historic bird, similar to an ostrich, which were common in pre-historic China.
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'''Liou Seng-Sen''' and '''Liou Tang-Sen''' were conjoined twins born in China and sideshow performers.
...heir father. Their exhibition career began at an early age in their native China. At age six they were shown at a fair in Hangzhou and were later taken to S
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*A somewhat more unfriendly race called grindylows appears in The Scar by China Miéville.
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...n that sun, moon, and stars move towards the northwest, and that rivers in China flow southeast into the Pacific Ocean.
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...ed 5th, behind the dragon, phoenix, winged horse and sea horse. In ancient China, statues of Pi Xiu were also used as tomb guardians.
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...s in the appearance of the qilin, even as seen in a single country such as China, owing to cultural differences between dynasties and regions.
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==In China==
When Buddhism entered China, it encountered stiff opposition from the Confucian adherents to ancestor w
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* Eberhard, Wolfram. 1968. ''The Local Cultures of South and East China''. E. J. Brill.
* Groot, J.J.M. de. 1910. ''The Religious System of China'' 6. E. J. Brill.
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In the mid 1700's, babies were dying in what is now Beijing China. Wherever they struggled for life, an owl was always observed nearby. Heari
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*Eberhard, Wolfram. 1968. ''The Local Cultures of South and East China''. E. J. Brill.
...us_system_of_china/volume_6/groot_religious6.doc ''The Religious System of China'' 6]. E. J. Brill.
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...the Yao people (a tribe located at the lower reaches of the Chang Jiang in China) and a canine shapeshifter that married an emperor's daughter and founded a
Thousands of years ago, in the country now known as China, there lived a king named Gao Xin. One day, his wife, the queen, suddenly g
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...have occurred among a rare species of predatory feline (such as the North China Leopard) which caused the growth of a bony protrusion from the skull. Among
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Haetae sculptures in architecture was widely used in China and other Asian countries. Sculpture of this sacred animal may have differe
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...oma-inu (lion dogs), is a variation of the guardian lions ("fu dogs") from China.
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...cruel tyrant Zhou Xin (紂辛 Zhòu Xīn), the last king of the Shang Dynasty in China. A nine-tailed fox spirit who served Nüwa, whom Zhou Xin had offended, ent
...een traditionally linked to taboo and sexuality. Nowadays in some areas of China, there still exist “Fox Fairy Temples” that are erected especially for
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...ularity in folklore can be traced to the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China (712 to 756). According to Song Dynasty sources, once the Emperor Xuanzong
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...d a creature called '''kutabe''', thought to be identical to the Bai Ze of China, once appeared on Mount Tateyama in Toyama Prefecture and predicted that a
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Su Kong Tai Djin was born in 1849 in a poor province of China. His parents were superstitious as were most Chinese at that time. When the
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There are numerous temples dedicated to Dragon Kings in China. One temple in Beijing was built during the Yuan Dynasty and renovated in t
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'''Wu Tou Gui''' 无头鬼- Ghost of the beheaded. In ancient China, people who committed heavy crimes were sentenced to decapitation, and thes
...try, the Chinese regard them as brutal murderers of countless commoners in China and South East Asia during World War II. The appearance of such a ghost giv
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...ay in areas of extremely high poverty and overpopulation, such as parts of China and India [http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html]. Female infants
...can partially be to blame. The illegal use of ultrasound is widespread in China, and itinerant sonographers with plain vans in parking lots offer inexpensi
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...ted Ox head existed in Buddhist writings, but when Buddhism spread through China, the folk people preferred things in symmetry. Hence he was then matched wi
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...s Willern de. 1913. [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/GR830xD7xV8/# ''The Dragon in China and Japan'']. J. Müller.
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Apsarases are often depicted in Buddhist art as far afield as Cambodia and China, however. They are a common motif in the decorations of the Angkor temples.
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...]] by Kyokutei Bakin. The kojin are creatures thought to live in the South China Sea, which resemble [[ningyo]], are always weaving at their looms, and whos
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...y white snake.JPG|right|250px|thumb|Image from the Summer Palace, Beijing, China, depicting the legend]]
...se TV series, is the most accepted, popular and thought classic edition in China Mainland. It starred Angie Chiu, Cecilia Yip and Maggie Chen (陈美琪). L
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...ls of a very similar animal, the Elasmotherium, have been found in Eastern China and Southern Russia. Although Elasmotherium is thought to have died out in
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*De Groot, Jan Jakob Maria. 1892-1910. ''The Religious System of China: Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspect, Manners, Customs
*Eberhard, Wolfram. 1968. ''The Local Cultures of South and East China.'' E. J. Brill.
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...re is a rabbit on the moon appears in the Warring States period in ancient China. The Chu Ci, a Western Han anthology of Chinese poems from the Warring Stat
...d in the Konjaku Monogatarishu, a Japanese collection of tales from India, China, and Japan. In this version, however, the rabbit's friends are a fox and a
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* Visser, Marinus Willern de. 1913. ''The Dragon in China and Japan''. J. Müller.
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- Jan Jakob Maria Groot, ''The Religious System of China''
* Groot, Jan Jakob Maria. ''The Religious System of China, Volume II''.
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...8:378-9) that the ''jiao'', which "occur in the whole of Central and South China", "is a special form of the snake as river god. The snake as river god or g
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...n was on his way by ferry to a temple on the bank of West Lake, in central China. It was early spring during the Quing Ming Festival (much like our Samhain,
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* In China Miéville's Bas-Lag novels, the Vodyanoi are an aquatic people skilled in w
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...own admission Li Ching-Yun was born in 1736 in the province of Szechwan in China and had lived 197 years. However, in 1930 a professor and dean at Minkuo Un
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...nk. When they returned the boat was gone. At that time there was famine in China. Meat of any kind was from $1-3 per pound. So great was the suffering among
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...ese Emperors are descendants of dragons. Dragons symbolized the Emperor of China along with those of Japan.
...1896:248), "it is invariably figured as possessing three claws, whereas in China it has four or five, according as it is an ordinary or an imperial emblem."
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...' are dog-headed bipedal creatures in the mythologies of Europe, India and China.
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...ant salamander that inhabits the fast-moving mountain streams of Japan and China and can grow to lengths of 5 or 6 feet).
...s giant salamanders may be related to the ''Megalobatrachus'' of Japan and China, which belongs to the family ''Cryptobrachus''. The largest known North Ame
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...nd the mudpuppy which can reach the length of a foot or more. In Japan and China the giant salamander is found, which reaches 5 feet (1.5m) and weighs up to
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...dversary. According to the film, Meganula and Megaguirus had originated in China during Carboniferous period. The insects follow an odonatan life cycle of w
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*Jacques Gernet, 'China and the Christian Impact: A Conflict of Cultures'; originally published as
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...a lion. In northern China, it may be a Rui Shi or Fu Dog. In the south of China, it may be a nian. The Cantonese lion dance is sometimes a reenactment of t
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* The anthology ''Looking for Jake'' by China Miéville contains a short story called "The Tain". It is set in a post-apo
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*Hakutaku - the wise Bai Ze beast of China, who reported on the attributes of demons
*Hōkō - a dog-like tree spirit from China
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Today, the rat king appears in novels such as ''China Miéville's King Rat'', ''The Tale of One Bad Rat'' by Bryan Talbot, ''Ratk
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...ri Harden (Barnes and Noble, 1995) as an excerpt from Religious Systems of China, vol. 5, book 2, by Jan de Groot (E.J. Brill, 1907.). It also can be found
* In the PlayStation 2 game Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, when the player is in China, a character summons grasshopper hopping corpses.
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...lso at [[Flathead Lake monster|Flathead Lake]] in Montana, Lake Tianchi in China, Bala Lake in Wales and the White River in Alabama. Fulk's Lake near Churu
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[[Image:dropa disk.jpg|thumb| A Bi Disk from China]]
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In China, as well as in Japan and Korea, the [[Azure Dragon]] is one of the Four Sym
...ive claws on each foot, on the other hand, symbolize imperial authority in China, and indirectly the Chinese people as well. Chinese people often use the te
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Current dinosaur "hot spots" include southern South America and China, which has yielded many newly discovered [[feathered dinosaurs]].
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...s Willern de. 1913. [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/GR830xD7xV8/# ''The Dragon in China and Japan'']. J. Müller.
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...antic stump of a roc's quill being brought to Spain by a merchant from the China seas (Abu Hamid of Spain, in Damiri).
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...thropy existed by at least 1901, when the term was applied to myths from [[China]] about humans turning into dogs, dogs becoming people, and sexual relation
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...cess which surfaced in 2004 in Pakistan turned out to have been forged. In China, preserved corpses have been recovered from submerged cypress coffins packe
...laims that hundreds of mummified bodies of Tibetan monks were destroyed in China during the Cultural Revolution or were cremated by the Lamaists in order to
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...er, as the centuries progressed and mercantile exchange between Persia and China became commonplace, the aesthetics of both these cultures heavily influence
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...a (Winter, in "Tijdschrift Voor Nederl. Indie," i. 566), and China (Gray, "China," i. 190), it becomes probable that such a practise has natural roots in po
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...America and Hawaii. [http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/30/china.bigfoot/] [http://www.parascope.com/en/articles/bigfootRussia.htm] [http://
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The structure of Hell is remarkably complex in many [[China|Chinese]] and [[Japanese mythology|Japanese]] religions. The ruler of Hell
...ion and there was no concept of an immaterial soul. In its home country [[China]], where Taoism adopted tenets of other religions, popular belief endows Ta
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*In China people say that one should not sweep or dust on Chinese New Year's Day lest
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...substitute devil" which in Chinese is a synonym for [[scapegoat]]. Also in China, particularly in the Guangzhou area, the Chinese people usually hold a Chin
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...for ghost stories and folktales to be gathered from all parts of Japan and China.
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..."Oregon" on the [http://www.pro-rock.com/v6/lyrics_shtc.html "Slow Hole to China"] album.
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...rk or play. This kept away everything, including potential playmates. In China and Malaysia, it is rubbed all over to prevent vampiric attack, usually on
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...15250.jpg|thumb|left|120px|Confucius, illustrated in ''Myths & Legends of China'', [[1922]], by E.T.C. Werner]]
...nated or were popular in [[India]], [[Persia]], the [[Middle East]], and [[China]].
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...The zombie appears in several other cultures worldwide, including Japan, China, the Pacific, India, and even the Native Americans.
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...War II, and during the Chinese Civil War and the [[Great Leap Forward]] in China. It has been claimed that cannibalism was practiced by Japanese troops as
...originally assumed the natives of Cuba were subjects of the Great Khan of China or 'Kannibals'. {{citation needed}} Prepared to meet the Great Khan, he had
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...he major evangelical authorities on demon possession was the missionary to China, John Livingston Nevius.
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...spirits that dwell in lakes or underground streams and guard treasure. In China, the nāga was equated with the [[lóng]] or Chinese dragon.
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...y has been practiced in Mesopotamia, [[Ancient Egypt]], Persia, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Islamic empire, and then in Europe up
...ndependent, at least in their earlier stages: Chinese alchemy, centered in China and its zone of cultural influence; and Western alchemy, whose center has s
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...res the "motorboating" behavior. Inhabits the Atlantic, Pacific, and South China Sea. Possibly extinct.
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*In the novel Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, the Garuda are a race of bird-people found in a desert region cal
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* In the novel Iron Council by China Mieville a Thaumaturge named Judah Low learns how to create powerful golems
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...ied by a Buddhist priest as a "heavenly dog", and much like the tiangou of China, the star precedes a military uprising. Although the Chinese characters for
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* George tripped over a four foot high china lion which was an ornament in the living room, and was left with bite marks
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In China, Korea and Japan, underwater realms where the [[Dragon Kings]] and their de
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...ts of the Martian invasion as experienced in France, Italy, Russia, India, China, Texas, Alaska, Equatorial Africa and other locations.
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* [[Qilin|The Unicorn of China]]
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Sorcerors and sorcery are a staple of [[China|Chinese]] [[wu xia]] fiction and are dramatically featured in many [[martia
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...nma Daiou''. He originated as Yama in Hinduism, later became ''Yanluo'' in China, and ''Enma'' in Japan. He is from Chinese Buddhism, and before that, from
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...lf months when Crowley had left her with Rose (after a family trip through China) and returned home by a different path. They had another daughter, Lola Zaz
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...rk or play. This kept away everything, including potential playmates. In China and Malaysia, it is rubbed all over to prevent vampiric attack, usually on
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