The '''Hsigo''' or '''Hsiao''' is a creature of Chinese folklore that resembled an owl but had a human face, the body of a monkey, and the t
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'''Chinese dragons''' are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology and folklore, with mythic counterparts among Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Turkic dra
...inology, a dragon is yang (male) and complements a yin (female) fenghuang "Chinese phoenix".
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The '''Yeren''', variously referred to as the '''Yiren''', '''Yeh Ren''', '''Chinese Wildman''', '''Wildman of Shennongjia''', '''Man-Monkey''', or '''Ren Xiong
...he local fauna, adding to its mystique. It has been connected with ancient Chinese legends of magical forest [[ogre]]s and man-like bears.
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'''Zhong Kui''' (Chinese: 鍾馗; pinyin: Zhōng Kuí; Japanese: '''Shōki''') is traditionally rega
...er Zhong became king of ghosts in Hell, he returned to his hometown on the Chinese New Year's Eve. To repay Du Ping's kindness, Zhong Kui gave his younger sis
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...ngmǎ; Wade-Giles: lung-ma) was a fabled winged horse with dragon scales in Chinese mythology. Seeing a longma was an omen of a legendary sage-ruler, particula
The Chinese word longma combines long 龍 ''dragon'' and ma 馬 ''horse''.
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...; Wade-Giles: pa-she) was a mythological giant snake that ate elephant in Chinese mythology.
''The Shanhaijing'' is an ancient Chinese mytho-geography. Chapter 10, the ''Haineinan jing'' 海內南經 ''Classic
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The '''Pénghoú''' (彭侯) is a tree spirit from Chinese folklore also known as '''Hōkō''' in Japan.
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In Chinese mythology, the '''shen''' or '''chen''' (Chinese: 蜃; pinyin: shèn or chèn; Wade-Giles: shen or ch'en; literally "large c
...zes that the chen < *dyən 辰 phonetic series (using Bernhard Karlgren's Old Chinese reconstructions) split between *dyən "dragon" and *tyən "thunder". The fo
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...the sun is in the form of a three-legged golden crow (金烏/金乌). According to folklore, there were originally ten sun birds, residing in a mulberry tree in the ea
Folklore also held that, at around 2170 BC, all ten sun birds came out on the same d
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'''Amefurikozo''' (雨降り小僧, "rainfall kid") is a weather spirit in Japanese folklore.
...onjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki. According to Sekien, it is in service of U-shi, a Chinese god of precipitation, and thus has the power to make the rain fall.
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...e legends and folklore concerning dragons, sea serpents, unicorns, and the Chinese phoenix.
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In the folklore of Gambia, a '''Ninki Nanka''' is a dragon-like creature believed to live i
...ad an encounter with a Ninki Nanka said it looked similar to an image of a Chinese dragon.
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In Chinese mythology, '''Huli jing''' (Chinese: 狐狸精) are fox spirits that can be either good or bad.
In Chinese, ''huli'' means fox, and ''jing'',spirit. Also a modern colloquial term fo
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...simply '''Gui''' is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔怪 (Mandarin Chinese: 魔鬼; pinyin：móguǐ) meaning "ghost", "evil spirit", "devil" or "demo
...imply means deceased spirits or souls of the dead. Nevertheless, in modern Chinese, it has evolved to refer usually to the dead spirits or ghosts of non-famil
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'''Baku''' (獏 or 貘, also known as "dream eaters") are spirits found in Chinese and Japanese mythology that devour dreams and nightmares.
...plush dolls may be used instead). In addition, people sometimes write the Chinese character for "baku" on pillowcases. In the Edo era, pillows with a baku d
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...'' , is a rabbit that lives on the moon in East Asian folklore. In Chinese folklore, it is often portrayed as a companion of the moon goddess Chang'o, constant
...ing States period in ancient China. The Chu Ci, a Western Han anthology of Chinese poems from the Warring States period, notes that along with a toad, there i
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...ogy)|group]]. The academic and usually [[ethnology|ethnographic]] study of folklore is known as [[folkloristics]].
...als; only in the 20th century did ethnographers begin to attempt to record folklore without overt political goals. The [[Brothers Grimm]], Wilhelm Grimm|Wilhel
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...(also written in a hyphenated form as '''were-cats''') are creatures of [[folklore]], fantasy fiction, horror fiction, and [[occult]]ism that are generally de
==Folklore==
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In the folklore of Japan, the '''ushi-oni''' (牛鬼,lit. "ox ogre"), or '''gyūki''', is t
...uly in Uwajima of Ehime Prefecture. Something like the dragon dancers at a Chinese New Year celebration, this ushi-oni is represented with a huge, multiple-pe
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...elestial Stag''' or '''Celestial Roe''' is an undead creature from Chinese folklore that lives in mines. It is mentioned in the [[Book of Imaginary Beings]] by
...luding Willoughby-Meade, believed that Groot's translation of the original Chinese word was incorrect, or that it is a variation of another word. This has als
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