Chinese Hundred Ghosts Spectrum 043: Night Fork is a sanskrit transliteration, which means "swift ghost", "able to bite ghost", "light and swift". If you look at it from the transliteration point of view, it is also translated as medicine fork, reading fork, night beggar fork and so on. The Night Fork in Buddhism, Hades, and folklore is not the same. The Night Fork Ghost, a ghost creature unique to Hades, is a folk legend of the Ghost of Hades, the whole body is black, and the head of the Night Fork in some paintings is hump-shaped, hairless, holding an iron fork, and the face is vicious and terrifying.

The "Brief Interpretation of the Dafang Guangfo Huayan Sutra" records:

Night Fork is the name of the ghost, translated as jie fast, describing the man's action is agile and fast, and also translated as hard work, describing his life as very painful, and at the same time very ugly, the woman's action is also very agile and fast, powerful, but very beautiful. There are many types, including empty night forks, ground night forks and so on.

Empty Row Night Fork:

Long two wings, can fly in the air, kaleidoscopic, sometimes red, sometimes blue, sometimes yellow, no matter what color, there is a dark light, this light is very powerful. The body sometimes becomes the head of a human beast, or a bull's head, or a horse's head, in short, frightening, likes to cause trouble.

Ground Night Fork:

Even more frightening, the hair was glowing green, up to several inches high, burning like a candle. One of the eyes was born on the top door and the other on the chin, and the shape was strange, some were triangular, some were half-moon shaped. The nose, one hole facing the sky, one hole to the ground, like the tentacles of a snail, sometimes protruding, sometimes retracting. The ears, one in front and one in the back, were so terrifying in shape that when people saw it, their whole body trembled with fear. I don't like to help people, but I especially like to scatter and harm people.