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China

3 entries in 3 subareas: 2 at grade A, 1 at grade B. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

The entries, in brief

The folklore of China documented in this atlas: Jiangshi, Huli jing and Shuigui. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (2 at grade A, 1 at grade B), with the sources it comes from. The 3 subareas are not an administrative division: folklore lives in cultural areas, which rarely coincide with state borders.

Huli jing A
A fox that acquires powers with age: at fifty she can change into a woman, at a hundred she is a beautiful woman or a shamaness, at a thousand she communicates with heaven. In the familiar form she seduces, drains a man's vital…

Shuigui A
Whoever drowns cannot be reborn until another dies in the same way and at the same spot, taking his place. The water dead therefore remain bound to the place and drag under the living who come near it. The same rule applies in…

Jiangshi B
In the Qing texts the undecomposed corpse goes out at night to wander, or else — if it is fresh and not yet laid out — springs up suddenly and attacks those keeping vigil. It has white down over the whole body, eyes red as…

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