monster

030, Celestial Rain Grass:

If the monarch is stingy and has no reputation, and if the virtuous minister leaves, the demon grass will fall from the sky, like rain, and the blades of grass are sticky with the size of a projectile.

("Sou Shen Ji": In August of the second year of Emperor Yongguang of the Han Yuan Dynasty, the sky rains grass, and the leaves are knotted, as big as a projectile.) In the first month of the first three years of Emperor Ping, the sky rains and grass, and the shape is like eternal light. Jingfang's "Yi Chuan" said: "The king is stingy with Lu, the letter is declining, the virtuous go, and the demon is raining grass." ”)

031, Niu Nengyan:

The cow that speaks is a sign of calamity.

("Sou Shen Ji": The ox pulling the cart by Zhang Cheng, Gongcao of Jiangxia County, suddenly said: "The world is going to be chaotic, and I am in a hurry. Where did you let me pull the cart to?" Zhang Cheng and several of his entourage were so frightened that they coaxed it and said, "Let you go back, don't talk anymore." So he went back halfway. When he returned home, he hadn't yet unloaded the car, and Niu said, "Why did you come back so early?" Zhang Cheng was even more frightened, so he was silent. There is a person who is good at divination in Anlu County, and Zhang Cheng went to ask him for divination. The soothsayer said, "Very unlucky." This is not a disaster for one family, but there will be a war in the country, and the whole county will be destroyed!" Zhang Cheng returned home, and the ox stood up and walked like a human being, and the people came to watch. In the autumn of that year, Zhang Chang rebelled and occupied Jiangxia County first, deceiving and confusing the people. Later, the entire county was destroyed, more than half of the dead and wounded, and Zhang Cheng's family was wiped out. )

032, Defeated Demon:

The defeated demon is the broken straw shoe demon, and when the world is ruined, they will come out to block the road.

("Sou Shen Ji")

033, No Injuries:

Injuryless is a humanoid that lives underground.

("The Corpse" says: "There are dogs in the ground, and the name is wolves; "Xia Dingzhi" said: "Digging the ground to get a dog, the name is Jia, digging the ground and getting a dolphin, the name is evil, digging the ground to get people, the name is Ju." "Sou Shen Ji": Gathered, no injury. "Jia" and "Earth Wolf" have different names, but they are actually the same thing. )

034, Knife Devil:

Monsters that appear in the storm and shoot people with venom.

("Sou Shen Ji": There is a kind of monster on many mountains in Linchuan County, which often appears with violent storms and rains, and the sound it makes is very long like a whistling, and it can shoot and hurt people.) The place where I was shot was swollen after a while, and it was very toxic. There are females and males in this monster, and the toxicity of males comes quickly, and the toxicity of females comes slowly. Those who are fast in toxicity will die in no more than half a day, and those who are slow in toxicity can live in a day. The people in the neighborhood often have a way to rescue someone who has been shot by a monster, but if it is a little too late, the injured person will die. Folks call this kind of monster "knife labor ghost". )

035, Feather Man:

There are men and women in the youkai in feather coats, and the man can do the ji, rape the man, and make the man pregnant......

("Sou Shen Ji": During the Yongchang period of Emperor Yongchang of the Jin Yuan Dynasty, Ren Gu, a farmer in Jiyang County, rested under the tree because he was tired from work. Suddenly, a man in a feather coat came and raped Ren Gu, and then disappeared, and Ren Gu became pregnant. When the pregnancy was long enough to give birth, the feather-clad man came again, and he pierced Ren Gu's lower yin with a knife and gave birth to a small snake. Ren Gu then became a eunuch and stated the matter in the palace, so he was left in the palace as a eunuch. orz)

036, Hitomi people:

A monster transformed by a person's pupil.

(Seen in "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi Tong Ren Language", a very interesting article)

037, House Demon:

A general term for the strange monsters in the house.

("Liao Zhai Zhi Strange House Demon": Li Gong of Changshan is the nephew of Da Sikou.) There are many strange things in the house. I once saw a spring stool in the house, the color of flesh red, very delicate and moist. He approached and stroked and pressed it, bending with the movement of his hand, almost as soft as flesh, and he turned and ran away in fear. Looking back again, I saw the four legs of the stool moving, slowly entering the wall. I also saw a white wooden rod leaning against the wall, smooth and moist for a long time. When I walked in and pressed it, the soft and greasy appearance fell, zigzagged into the wall, and disappeared after a long time.

When Kangxi was seventeen years old, Wang Sheng and Wang Junsheng became teachers in his family. It was late and the lights were just on, and he was lying on the bed with his shoes on. Suddenly, I saw a little man about three inches long coming in from outside, turning around a little, and then leaving again. After a while, he came with two small stools on his back and placed them in the hall, almost like a child's stuff made of mushroom grass. After a while, two little men came in carrying a coffin, about four inches long, and rested on a stool. Before the placement was completed, a woman led a few small maidservants in, all small and as before. The woman was dressed in mourning clothes, with a linen belt that tied her waist and a cloth that covered her head. Covering his mouth with his sleeve, he cried like a big fly. Wang Sheng peeked at it for a long time, and his hair stood upside down, as if there was frost on his body. So he called out loudly, immediately ran up, fell out of bed, trembling and unable to get up. The people in the school hall heard the movement and came to the hall, but the little people were gone. )

038, Yaksha Country:

The country where Jiaozhou overseas yaksha is located.

(Seen in "Strange Tales of the Yaksha")

039, Rakshasa Country:

In the country of overseas rakshasas, the people here regard ugliness as beauty, and grant official positions to the people according to their appearance, and the uglier the officials, the bigger they are, and the beautiful boys here will be frightened to hide away, thinking that the beautiful boys of Middle-earth are ugly and can't bear to look at them directly.

(Seen in the praise of "Liao Zhai Zhi Wei Rakshasa Haishi")

040, Zhu Polong:

The monsters produced in Jiangxi, like dragons but very short, can fly horizontally, pounce on chickens and ducks along the riverbank, and provoke them will bring wind and waves.

("Liao Zhai Zhi Wei Zhu Po Long": A guest came from the right side of the river, got one, and was in the boat.) One day, the boat was full of money, and he suddenly jumped into the river. In Russia, the waves are raging, and the boat is estimated to be capsized. )

041, Laixiali:

After the failure of the Seven Anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing soldiers wantonly planted a company, slaughtered civilians, and suffered the most casualties in Laiyang and Qixia in Shandong, and the souls of the two places gathered together to form a ghost village called Laixiali.

(Seen in "Liao Zhai Zhi Wei Gongsun Jiuniang")

042, Yanagigami:

The willow god is a willow demon who sometimes blesses the village.

("Liao Zhai Zhi Wei Liu Xiucai": The locust plague in the Ming Dynasty affected Yizhou, and the county order was very worried. One day I slept in the yamen, and I dreamed that a show came to visit. Xiucai, wearing a high hat and green clothes, and a burly figure, said: "Tomorrow on the southwest road, there is a woman riding a female donkey with a big belly, who is the locust god. Crying out to her will avert disaster. The prefectural order was very surprised, and the next day he really prepared food and drinks and went to the south of the city. After waiting for a long time, I saw a person riding a female donkey and slowly walking north. The county order immediately burned incense, served wine, greeted her by the roadside, and grabbed her donkey to prevent her from leaving. The woman asked, "What are you going to do?" and the county magistrate pleaded, "Little county, please have mercy, don't let the locusts eat the crops!" The woman said, "Liu Xiucai is too talkative, and if he divulges the secret, it is okay not to damage the crops, and Liu Xiucai must be punished." She drank three glasses of wine and then disappeared. Then the locusts flew over the sky, but they did not fall in the fields, but they all stopped on the willows. Wherever the locusts passed, the willow leaves were eaten. Only then did the county order know that Xiu was the willow god. )

043, Yama Administration:

The place where ghosts are judged in the underworld.

("Liao Zhai Zhi Wei Yudu Imperial History": "There is a hole outside the county of Yudu (Yinfengdu), which is unfathomable, and it is said that the Yama Department is said. All the prison equipment is borrowed from labor. The shackles are decayed, and the hole is thrown, and the slaughter of the city is changed with the new, and the place where the fate is lost. The supply of expenditure, the economic system. ”)

044, Wine Bug:

The monster that lives in the belly of the human being, red, two inches long, has a mouth and eyes, and makes people addicted to alcohol, but will keep people rich and noble in order to have wine to drink.

("Liao Zhai Zhi Wei Wine Worm" is to the effect: Changshan Liu's man loves to drink but is not drunk, a monk saw it, said that you have a wine worm in your stomach, so you used wine to seduce the wine worm, red, two inches long, with a mouth and eyes, writhing like a fish, the monk said: "This is the spirit of the wine, you can get good wine by soaking it in wine." But Liu didn't like to drink anymore, and his family gradually became poor. )

045, Ghost:

虿 (chai four sounds) ghost, the ghost of the poisonous insect with yellow hair and ugly face, kills people invisibly, and turns people into blood.

(Seen in "Liao Zhai Zhi Wei Scorpion Guest", to the effect that: a customer in the south who sells scorpions, caught a lot of scorpions for sale, one day he lived in a hotel, suddenly felt his heart beating more than creepy, found the store and said that it must be a ghost turned into a poisonous insect to take revenge, the store let him hide in the big urn, after a while, a yellow-haired and ugly person came, asked where the guest was, the store said out, so the man sniffed the air and left, the store breathed a sigh of relief, opened the lid and looked, the guest had turned into an urn of blood. )

[To be continued]

Category B:

001, Ghost Car:

The ghost car is a ghost bird, a cannibal soul.

("Ridge Table Record Different": "Ghost cars, between spring and summer, a little obscure, then flying past, especially outside the mountains, love into the soul of others.) Or the nine heads of clouds, once one of the dogs, often dripping blood. The house of blood drops is to blame. ”)

002, Painted Skin:

The painted skin is a skeletal ghost, often painted on human skin, and after painting, it is draped on the body and turned into a beauty, eating people's hearts and livers.

(See "Liao Zhai Zhi Wei Painted Skin")

003, Mao Rong Po:

Lingnan folklore, the old woman with the head of a cat, eats young children, has a third eye on the top of her head, and can kill her by poking blind, there is a similar legend in Taiwan, called Tiger Aunt, is a tiger turned into a spirit, like to eat young children.

004, Ghost:

A kind of monster that looks like a sheep and a pig, hiding underground and sucking human brains.

("Sou Shen Ji": When Qin Mugong was someone, someone dug out a monster that looked like a sheep and a pig from the ground, and grabbed it to be dedicated to Mu Gong, and met two children on the way, and one of the children said: "The name of this thing is 媪 (音袄), hiding in the ground to suck the brains of the dead, if you want to kill her, stick a cypress branch into her head." When she heard this, she said, "Those two children are called Chen Bao, and the one who gets the male can dominate the world, and the one who gets the female can dominate the princes." So the man went and caught the two children, and they turned into pheasants and flew away. )

005, 魍魉:

魍魉 (音网二) is a youkai that lives in weak waters, looks like a three-year-old child, has red eyes and long ears, and is red and black, and likes to imitate human voices to confuse people. can be attached to the wood and stone, he was originally the son of Emperor Xuan.

(See in "Sou Shen Ji", "Confucius's Family Language", "Huainanzi", etc.) )

006, Turning into a Snake:

The snake had the face of a human being, a body like a jackal, and a pair of bird's wings, and swam in the form of a snake, and its cry was like that of a woman's reprimand. When it appears, it often brings flooding.

(The Classic of Mountains and Seas)

007, Dansheng:

The man-eating basilisk in Osawa.

Once upon a time, there was a scholar who picked up a small snake on the road and adopted it. The scholar always carried it on his back, so he gave it a name called Dansheng. The snake grew bigger and bigger, and the scholar could no longer carry it, so he was released into the swamp. Forty years later, he will become a giant python, and those who pass by Daze will be devoured. When the scholar passed through Daze when he was old, people said: There is a big snake that eats people here, don't pass from here. But the scholar thought that it was winter, and the snakes were hibernating, so he didn't care. After walking a short distance, he saw a big snake, but the scholar recognized it and said, "Aren't you a burden?" The snake bowed its head for a long time and left. The scholar returned to Fan County, and the county magistrate thought that it must be strange that the scholar passed through Daze and was not eaten by snakes, so he was thrown into prison. That night, the serpent came with a violent storm and flooded the entire county, but the prison was spared and the scholars were rescued.

("Water Jing Note Turbidity Zhangshui": People have people who walk on the way, see a small snake, suspect that it has a spirit, hold it and raise it, and the name is Dansheng.) It is long and devours people, and it suffers from it, so it catches the system. See also in "The Legend of Guangyi")

008, Plague Ghost:

The legendary son of the Plague.

(Seen in "Zuo Biography", "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" and many other places, Song Anonymous's "Strange Stories": "The shepherd boy heard that there was a person who buckled the door in the cattle pen, and he looked at it urgently, and saw hundreds of strong men, all wearing five-flower armor and red scarlets, and suddenly entered. And when they were hidden, and when they were revealed, fifty of the cattle in the pen died. Cover the plague ghost cloud. ”)

009, paper clipping:

The paper clip is a thin piece of paper-like ghost, which is humanoid when unfolded, and the changes are gratuitous and specially scary.

(Seen in "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang", Cao Zhuxu, the head of the household, said: His brother went to Yangzhou from She County and borrowed a friend's house.) A friend invited him to rest in the study, Cao Sheng felt very cool and planned to sleep here at night, but his friend told him: "There are ghosts in this room, and no one can live there." Cao Sheng insisted on staying, and in the middle of the night, a thin ghost like a paper clip entered the door. Unfolded into a beautiful woman, suddenly cloaked in hair, stuck out her tongue, and became the appearance of a hanged ghost. Cao Sheng was not afraid at all, and the woman took off her head and put it on the desk. Cao Sheng was still not afraid, and the ghost was gone. When Cao Sheng returned from Yangzhou, he lived in this study again, and in the middle of the night, there were monsters crawling in the doorway. As soon as the monster appeared, Cao Sheng scolded: "Why are you again." When the ghost heard this, he didn't dare to come in. It's really sad to be a ghost for this part...... )

010, Jing Yuanying:

Jing Yuanying is a beautiful woman transformed into a mirror, who was coerced by a poisonous dragon to lure men into a deep well for the poisonous dragon to swallow.

(Bo Yizhi)

011, clay puppet:

When ghosts enter the world, they can mate with people with the help of carriers.

(Seen in "Liao Zhai Zhi Wei Tu Puppet")

012, Yanwei:

Also known as the snake, a ghost with a human head and a snake body. With two heads, wearing purple clothes and a red crown, if the human lord sees Yanwei and sacrifices to him, he can dominate the world.

(Seen in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Zhuangzi: Duke Qi Huan once saw Yanwei.) Qi Huan Gong went to Zeye to hunt, Guan Zhong drove, Qi Huan Gong suddenly saw the ghosts and gods, was scared to pee, took Guan Zhong's hand and asked Have you seen it? Guan Zhong shook his head and said he didn't see it. After the Duke of Qi Huan came back, he fell ill because of fright, and a person named the prince Sue Ao (surnamed the prince) came to see the Duke of Qi Huan and said, "It's not the ghosts and gods who want to scare you, it's you who scare you." ”

Qi Huan asked: "Is there a ghost then?" The prince said to Ao: "Of course there is, the ghost in the sludge is called a shoe, and the ghost in the stove is called a bun." In the dirt of the house, there lived a ghost named Thunder, and under the wall in the northeast of the house, a ghost named Beia and Salmon (Yinguilong) was jumping, and under the wall in the northwest, a ghost named Yuyang (Yinyiyang) lived there. The water ghosts in the water are called Xiangxiang, the ghosts in the hills are called 峷 (Yinshen), the mountain ghosts in the mountains are called Kui (Yinkui), the wild ghosts in the suburbs are called hesitation, and there are ghosts in the rivers and rivers called Wei Snake. ”

Qi Huan asked: "What does the snake look like?" The prince said to Ao: "The snake has a body as big as a wheel, as long as a wheel, and wears a purple robe and a red crown. I hate to hear Thor's car passing by, and cover my ears when I hear it. Those who see him will become overlords. Qi Huan Gong laughed and said, "What I see is him!" Then he sat up and chatted with the prince Ao Ao, and he was cured of his illness before he knew it. )

013, Black Water Snake:

A basilisk near Wushan, which can swallow elk alive, is guarded by Wushan Yellow Bird.

(Seen in the Classic of Mountains and Seas)

014, Dry:

The drought is a kind of small person with eyes on the top of the head, the whole body*, two or three feet long, walking like the wind, and the places it passes through will be in great drought, and the land is thousands of miles away.

("Sayings", "The Book of Poetry, Yunhan", Kong Yingda Shu)

015, Chishui Women's Offering:

Xian is a girl in green clothes, she was originally a goddess in the sky, her name is a concubine, but she was injured when she helped the Yellow Emperor fight Chiyou and could not return to the heavenly realm, so she stayed near Zhongshan and was a neighbor with Candle Dragon, and it didn't rain wherever she stayed. Shujun reported this incident to the Yellow Emperor, and the Yellow Emperor placed her in the north of Chishui, sometimes the female concubine went out, if you want to expel her, you need to dredge the river, communicate the waterway, and then order: "God to the north!" People often see a woman in green clothes on Zhongshan next to Chishui, and they all call her Chishui Woman Xian.

016, White Ape:

The demon ape on the mountains near Jin'an County often captivates beautiful women as harems, and often turns into handsome men in white to seduce young girls.

(Tang Anonymous "The Biography of the White Ape of Bujiang")

017, Nine Infants:

The Nine Babies are a hydra basilisk that dwells in ferocious water and can spit fire and water.

(Seen in "Huainanzi" high temptation note)

018, Xiaoyu Mountain Ghost Mother:

The ghost mother is an evil ghost living in Xiaoyu Mountain in the South China Sea, and a litter can give birth to ten ghosts, usually born in the morning and eaten at night.

(The Narrative of Differences)

019, Mr. Gomo Ichimoku:

@一目五先生 is five ghosts living in Zhejiang, but four are blind, only one of them has an eye, everyone depends on him to see things, listen to his orders, in the year of the plague, Mr. Yimu Wu will appear, while people are asleep to sniff people's essence, a ghost sniffs people will get sick, five ghosts smell people will die.

("Zi Bu Silent": In a rich hotel, the crowd of guests is sleeping, and they are sleepless, the lights suddenly shrink, and I see five ghosts jumping in a row.) The four ghosts will sniff a guest, and the gentleman said: "This great good man is also not." Then he sniffed a guest, and the gentleman said, "This is a blessed man, but no." He sniffed again, and the gentleman said, "This great wicked person is even more not." The four ghosts said: "What kind of meal will Mr. Ranze have?" Mr. pointed to the two guests and said: "This generation is not good or evil, there is no blessing and no luck, what should you do if you don't eat?" The four ghosts sniffed it, the second guest sniffed it gradually, and the belly of the five ghosts gradually swelled. )

020, Giant Hand:

The spirits of the mountains plunder people's property with their giant hands.

("Youyang Miscellaneous": "Hui Ke, a monk of Longxing Temple in Lingzhou, does not follow the precepts and lifts the stone mortar. Hospitality, many exchanges. There are more than ten monks in the temple at night, and pancakes are set up. In the second watch, there was a giant hand with a fur like a deer, and he said: "Begging for a pancake." The monks were shocked, but Hui Ke took a few pancakes and put them in his palm. Mei Yin closed his fist, and the monk tried his best to grasp it. The charm prayed, the voice was very earnest, and Hui Ke called his family to cut it. And broken, it is a bird feather. Tomorrow, with its blood traces out of the temple, southwest into the stream, to a rock and extinguished. Hui Ke led people to excavate, it is a pit of rock. ”)

021, Floating:

Floating, who was originally a courtier, was later defeated by the Gonggong, and Floater committed suicide and became a resentful spirit.

("Shao Shan Fang Pen Series": In the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin Pinggong dreamed of a red bear in front of the screen, and he couldn't afford to be sick ever since.) Pinggong asked Zheng Guo's son about the reason, and Zichan replied: "In the past, the minister of the Gonggong floated, but after being defeated by Zhuan, he drowned in the Huai River, and later he turned into a red bear to harm the world; if you see the floating in the palace, the government will collapse; if you see the floating at the door, the courtiers will make trouble; if you see the floating in front of the screen, nothing big will happen, and your illness will not cause death, as long as you sacrifice to the Zhuan and the Gonggong, it can be eliminated." Pinggong did as he said, and his illness was cured. )

022, Pipa:

("Sou Shen Ji": "Yang Du went to Yuyao.") In a hurry at night, a young man with a pipa asked for a ride, and Yang Du let him get in the car. The young man played dozens of tunes with the pipa, and after playing, his eyeballs suddenly burst out and spit out his long tongue to scare Yang Du, and then he disappeared, Yang Du walked about twenty miles again, and saw an old man who claimed to be surnamed Wang Mingjie. Yang Du let him hitchhike again, and said to him uncertainly: "I met a ghost just now, who is good at playing the pipa, and plays it very sadly. Wang Jie said, "I can also play." After saying that, he stared at him again, it turned out that he was the ghost just now, and Yang Du was so frightened that he almost died. ”)