BY TRADITION
Chinese folklore
5 records of Chinese folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.
Huli JingA Chinese fox spirit that cultivates essence until it can take human form. Distinct from Japanese kitsune and Korean kumiho, though all three share an East Asian vulpine lineage.JiangshiA hopping revenant of Chinese folklore and later popular culture, usually tied to a body animated by disrupted death rites or vital force.NianA horned New Year beast of Chinese popular legend, said to leave sea or mountain once a year to feed. Firecrackers, drums, and the colour red are remembered as the wards that drive it off.Nü GuiA Chinese category of female ghost, often the returning spirit of a woman who died under injustice. Not one named monster, but a recurring figure of grievance, mourning dress, and unfinished memory.Shui GuiThe water ghost of Chinese folk belief: the spirit of someone who drowned, lingering at that place and, in many accounts, seeking a living substitute so it may leave the water.
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