Chinese Lore- a selection of mythical fauna (16)

Song Si

Physical Description:

Like a female pheasant with a human head.

Special Properties:

It jumps around whenever humans are nearby The sound of its call is like its own name.


Tian Ma

Physical Description:

Looks like a white dog with a black head.

Special Properties:

It flies away whenever humans are nearby The sound of its call is like its own name.


Jiang Wei

Physical Description:

A crow-like bird with a patterned head, white beak and red feet.

Special Properties:

The sound of its call is like its own name.

Lore:

The youngest daughter of Yan Di (the one who had a daughter that turned into the Yao Grass) drowned at the Eastern Ocean and her spirit turned into the Jiang Wei which always dropped sticks and stones into the ocean hoping to one day destroy it.


Long Snake

Physical Description:

A snake whose hair is as hard as that on the neck of pigs (or hogs, not sure, but this is supposed to hair that are hard).

Special Properties:

The sound it makes is like the sound of a wood block, a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument, being played.

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