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Reading Notes:Chinese Fairytales Part B

 




The Little Hunting Dog
*Similar story to king of the ants*
A Scholar was a bit anti social, so he made his home in a buddhist temple. One night he saw two little nights enter his room. They were about 2 inches tall and rode horses the size of grasshoppers. A tiny army fought and nearly all had disappeared, but he was astonished and didn't know where they came from. His tiny dog bit to death any vermin it would find. When he woke the dog was dead.

A fox was preparing for the elixir of life, when the fox breathed fire into the air the man hid and when it came back down the man swallowed the elixir into his stomach. The fox saw and grew angry, from then on the boy could turn invisible, he earned much money from these gifts. One night the ball of fire leaped back from his throat, the fox took it and left. 
An archer killed the fox spirit's form and sold him for his pelt. He received 5000 copper pieces from that. 
The boy threw a stone at a bird and it hit an old man and he died. they declared him to have slipped and fell to his death, this was karma for what this man had done in his youth when he dragged a man's body to the river bank that he killed and they declared he slipped and fell. 
A merchant was sleeping, and he heard men yelling about a war. He got scared and ran and ran to an inn where the inn keeper told the man that he was on the site of a battle and that many supernatural things happen at night. 
There once was a beautiful maiden, a man appeared and courted her asking every day if she would marry him. He removed steps so she could not step down and leave and he continued to come back. She spied on him and noticed that he turned into an ogre when he left. A visitor saw her clothes that she threw down to signal for help, and he brought those clothes to her parents. They were able to get up with a ladder and help to save her. 
*similar story*
A woman hid because a man was pursuing her and she wanted to escape him. The men looking for her said that she was a flying ogre and was pretending to be women. 
The giant kills the sorcerer's son and wife and they fought each other. The giant swallowed him and walked away, the sorcerer tricked the soldiers.
Dschou Tschu had slain two of the evils: the dragon, and tiger but third he had to watch over his country. So he enlisted in the army and atoned his sin for life. 
How the River God’s Wedding Was Broken Off
Si-men tricked the witches and sorcerers to promise to never seek a bride for the sea god again because of what they had done. He returned the girl home and saved her. 
Yang Gui Fe
She was the favorite wife of the emperor Ming Huang, he did whatever she wished because of her beauty. A magician appeared to help the emperor. The wife told him that she was a sky fairy and the emperor was blessed with a spirit also. There was a ring they broke in two. She gave the ring to the magician to bring back to him to prove her love for the emperor. He saw the ring and believed her!

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