Continued, the ghosts and monsters in ancient legends will be attached to some murderers and beasts and so on.

009, reckless image:

It is a man-eating monster that lives in the water, shaped like a child, with red skin and black skin, red claws, big ears and long arms.

(See Lu Deming's note in "Zhuangzi", Xue Zong's note in "Tokyo Fu", etc.)

010, Producing Ghosts:

The yokai wearing a light green shirt and a bright yellow skirt is short in stature and often appears in the delivery room, causing the woman to die in childbirth.

("Yi Jianzhi": "Examine a woman.") Wear a round crown. Wearing a light blue shirt. Tie a bright yellow dress. The shape is not short. It didn't move for a long time. Fu silently recited the canopy mantra several times. The curtain was lifted. The old man exclaimed. Ask why. Say. And there was a woman who came out from within. It's urgent. Practice in the face of others. Said its clothes. but to those who see. The predicate is gone. And the night is not time to migrate. Restore the pillow. Before the dream, people go to bed. Pillow on his left shoulder. The body is as cold as an ice stone. I said that I was Jiang Tong's daughter. This is the end of the production. ”）

011, False Beast:

The beast is a kind of monster that likes to deceive people, can speak human language, has a good face, and has a body that looks like a rabbit. If you eat its flesh, you can't tell the truth.

(The Divine Sutra)

012, Sufferer:

The ghost is a ghost born of the sorrow and resentment of the prison, several feet long, shaped like a cow, blue eyes, shining eyes, four feet stuck in the dirt, always moving but the position does not change, wine can relieve sorrow, so pouring it with wine can make it disappear.

("Sou Shen Ji")

013, Sac:

There is a kind of youkai in the mountains called the Gyozao. It looks like a child, when it sees a person, it will seduce it and pull it, but if you are pulled to the place where it is, it will die.

("Sou Shen Ji")

014, Jinhua Cat:

Similar to the cats in the night walk of the hundred ghosts, legend has it that after three years of raising cats in Jinhua, Zhejiang, they will squat on the roof and open their mouths to swallow the essence of the moon to the moon, and then they will become monsters. When it becomes a monster, it will deceive people, and when it meets a woman, it will become a beautiful boy, and when it meets a man, it will become a beautiful woman. to someone else's house. Will quietly urinate in the bucket, if the family drinks the water in the bucket, they will begin to see the figure of the Jinhua cat, and the body will begin to grow cat hair. At this time, the family needs to quietly contact the hunter. After the hunter captures the cat demon with the hound. Give its meat to the sick to eat. The patient can be better, but if the man eats the tomcat and the woman eats the female. It can't be cured, and it will die after a while.

(The Fortified Collection)

015, Cat Ghost:

The cats raised by wizards are possessed by ghosts, and they can harm people with spells.

(There is a matter of using cat ghosts to murder Queen Dugu in the Book of Sui, which is recorded in the "Biography of Dugu Tuo in the Book of Sui", and there are also records related to cat ghosts in "Chaoye Zhizai" and "Tang Law and Discussion".) 016, pig guinea snake:

A short, fat, legged, hairy, pig-like snake demon that dies instantly when bitten by it.

("Yi Jianzhi": "There is a snake out of the bamboo, its length is three feet, its face is as big as a pestle, it is four-legged, it is hairy all over its body, it makes a sound like a pig, and it tends to be very sick, and it is devouring people one by one.) Everyone was disturbed, and they didn't know what to do, so they had a manger on the side and hurriedly overthrew it. And the white commander, send Hujun. Junzhi can already say what he wants, and the cloud is a pig and a snake that bites people to death. Later, he was killed by the martial arts doctor Cheng Jun using a spell. ）

017, Mandrill:

The mandrill is a child-like mountain spirit that grows one leg and likes to invade people at night.

("Hug Puzi": The mountain spirit is shaped like a child, with one foot backwards, and the night is happy with the prisoner, and his name is Xiao.) ）

018, 魖:

魖 (音繞) is a kind of ghost that makes people waste.

(The Sayings)

019, Earth Wolf:

The ground wolf, a kind of monster that lives underground, looks like a dog, and is ominous when seen.

("Corpse")

020, Mud Ghost:

The clay embryo and the earth doll turned into a spirit.

("Strange Tales from Liaozhai": "My fellow townsman Tang Taishi, when he was a child, he was very bold, once his cousin took him to the temple to play, he saw the glass beads in the eyes of the mud ghosts in the palace, big and bright, he liked it in his heart, so he secretly pulled out his fingers and hid them and brought them home. Upon arriving home, his cousin suddenly couldn't speak. After a while, he sat up suddenly, and asked sharply, "Why are you gouging out my eyes!" Everyone was surprised, and Taishi said what he had done in the temple. So the family prayed, "Don't be angry, don't be angry, I'll give it back to you right away." The demon cried out, "In that case, then I'll go." With that, my cousin fell to the ground and closed his breath, and it took a long time to wake up, and he didn't know what was going on. So the family hurriedly returned the glass eyeballs. ”）

021, Temple Ghost:

The ghosts and monsters turned into mud embryos in the temple are harmful to people.

("Strange Tales from Liaozhai": "After Xiucai Wang Qihou, when he was resting in the study, suddenly a woman pushed the door in, sat directly on the bed and began to untie her clothes, but her face was dark and ugly. Wang Sheng obviously couldn't accept it and rejected her. But the woman did not leave, but still greeted her with a smile and tried her best to please her. Day and night by Wang Sheng's side, Wang Sheng was unmoved, the woman was not treated for a long time, annoyed and angry, slapped him, cried and grabbed the ground, sprinkled it, said that since it was so ruthless, it was better to die, and as he spoke, he hung a plain belt on the beam. I saw Wang Sheng flying up, hanging in the air, his neck extended, his legs and feet kicking randomly, as if he was hanging, but he didn't have much pain, and there was no sign of dying at all. After a while, Wang Sheng screamed again: "She's going to drag me to jump into the river!" turned around and ran wildly towards the river, and everyone forcibly pulled him down. In this way, every day has to be tossed. It is useless to worship Buddha and seek medical treatment. Everyone laughed at him for being crazy. Then one day, suddenly a samurai came in with a chain and shouted, "How dare you disturb the simple man?" After speaking, the woman was locked and dragged out of the window, revealing that it was a clay fetus in the City God Temple outside the city. It seems that whether or not you have achieved something about being a ghost also depends on your face.

022, merman:

The demon clan living in the South China Sea, half human and half fish, tears will turn into pearls when crying.

("Sou Shen Ji": ""Beyond the South China Sea, there are mermaids, who live in water like fish, do not waste weaving, and their eyes cry, they can produce pearls. It is also recorded in books such as "Naturalist Chronicles". ）

023。 Frog God:

The monsters in the area of the Yangtze River and the Han River are the ones that are believed and respected by the local people, and they are often combined with people.

(Seen in "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi Frog God", this article is very long and very interesting, if you like it, you can search for it yourself.) ）

024, Human-faced Owl:

The Human-faced Owl is a strange bird with a pheasant body and a canine tail, which often brings drought to humans.

(The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of the West Mountains)

025, Human Snake:

The human snake is a snake demon with a snake body but human hands and feet, walking upright and infesting in groups. When you meet people, you laugh. After laughing for a while, he began to eat people, and when he heard the laughter, he hurried to run before it was too late, otherwise it would be too late.

("Gezhi Jingyuan": "The human snake is seven feet long.") Color like ink. Snake head, snake tail, snake body. The tail is long and the feet are long. And the hands and feet are three feet long. People stand up, and when they go out, they gather in groups. When you meet people, you laugh, and you just laugh and you turn away. However, it is very late, and when you hear its laughter, you can run away. ”）

026, Fox Demon:

A monster turned into a fox.

(There are too many stories of fox demons harming or helping people, and there are many representative stories, which are widely seen in various Zhiwei novels.) ）

027, Ghost Officer:

A ghost who asks for his life according to the Yin Si book.

("Sou Shen Ji": There was a man named Zhou Shi in Xiapi County in the Han Dynasty, who once went to Donghai County, and met a small official on the road, holding a volume of documents and asking for a boat. After traveling more than ten miles, he said to Zhou Shi: "I am going to visit someone, my documents are stored in your ship, you must not open them." After the little official left, Zhou Shi secretly opened the book, and it turned out to be a list of dead people. The entries below have the name of the Zhou style. After a while, the little official came back, but Zhou Shi was still reading. The little official said angrily: "I warned you not to read just now, but you treat my words as child's play. Zhou Shi hurriedly kowtowed to him and begged for mercy, knocking so much blood flowed out, and after a long time, the little official said: "Although I am grateful to you for letting me take a boat, your name cannot be removed from the paperwork." Hurry home after you leave me, and don't go out for three years, so that you can get through it. Don't tell anyone else. ”

After Zhou Shi returned home, he stayed behind closed doors for more than two years, and everyone in the family felt very strange. Once a neighbor died, his father was very annoyed that he didn't go out, so he asked him to go to the neighbor's house to mourn. The little official said, "I told you not to go out for three years, but you went out today, I can't help it, someone will come to arrest you in three days." Zhou Shi went home and told his family in tears. His father resolutely did not believe it, and his mother watched over him day and night, and at noon on the third day, he saw someone coming to arrest Zhou Shi, and Zhou Shi died. ）

028, Tickle:

It is a kind of monster that lives in the Yangtze River, also known as the "short fox", which can shoot people with sand. Anyone who is shot by it will have cramps all over the body, headache and fever, and even death in severe cases. The idiom "insinuation" is used to describe the sting.

("Sou Shen Ji": There is a monster living in the Yangtze River, its name is "Dragon", also known as "short fox", which can shoot people in the sand.) Anyone who is shot by it will have cramps all over the body, headache and fever, and even death in severe cases. The people on the side of the Yangtze River used magic to treat it, and sand and gravel could be found in its flesh. This is the so-called "ghost" in the "Book of Songs" "If you are a ghost, you can't get it". Now the folk call it "brook poison". The ancient Confucians believed that when men and women bathe in the same river, the vitality of fornication will produce such monsters. ）

029, Lintao Giant:

The five-zhang tall giants, a total of twelve, once appeared in Lintao County during the time of Qin Shi Huang. Qin Shi Huang cast twelve giants in bronze to record their images.

("Sou Shen Ji")

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. ）

036, Hitomi people:

A monster transformed by a person's pupil.

(Seen in "Liao Zhai Zhi Different Pupil 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. (To be continued......)