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Take stock of the twelve legends of the Chinese cat demon

Quoted from Sina.com, by Simon Lean Broth

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Cat Rong Po

According to Lingnan folklore, there is an old woman with a cat head whose ears will cover her forehead to make it look like an old woman. Eat young children.

She has a third eye on the top of her head, and poking her blind can kill her.

There is a similar legend in Taiwan, called the Tiger Aunt, who is a tiger who turns into a monster and likes to eat young children.

Legend has it that the cat Rong Po would talk and live under a dead tree at the top of the hill, and there would be crows on the trees, and when someone passed by, the crow would report to the cat Rong Po.

It is said that two clever children tricked the cat Rong Po into the closet and then poured hot water on the cat Rong Po screamed and then turned into a pool of leeches and crawled away.

Take stock of the twelve legends of the Chinese cat demon

2 Yellow Demons

There is a monster that resembles a cat, with a particularly large head and yellow hair, and people call it the "Yellow Demon".

If the domestic cat saw it, the domestic cat would immediately run to the river, drink the water from the river to cleanse his stomach, and then go to the yellow demon and let him eat it.

The yellow demon first licked the cat from beginning to end with its tongue, the cat hair was licked by it, it would naturally fall off quickly, and then it stretched out its claws to scratch back and forth on the cat's belly, and then cut through the belly to drag the intestines out and eat it, and also drank blood and flesh, and finally only a few pieces of debris were left.

Take stock of the twelve legends of the Chinese cat demon

Quoted from "Guangyang Miscellaneous"

Between pingliang and quiet, there are things like cats, and the first big color is yellow, and people call "yellow demons". When the domestic cat saw it, he went with it, drank from the river to cleanse his stomach, and listened to his food before the demon. The demon licks it with its tongue, and the hair falls with the licking, and eats it with the cat.

3 cat monkeys

There is a song about the cat monkey in hebei, saying that the cat monkey is a monster with a cat's head monkey body, about two to three meters tall,

The eyes are like two green lanterns, the body of a monkey, about two to three meters, often coming in and out at midnight, eating the people who come home at night...

The cat monkey is clever and fast, and when hunting people, it will also use the monkey's tail to sweep away people

Take stock of the twelve legends of the Chinese cat demon

4 cat corpses

There are many such stories. Most say that the cat is a very reiki animal, it has nine lives. And when it passes by the corpse, the dead person can feel its call, will borrow a life from the cat, and then jump up.

When the corpse jumped up, the relatives of the guardians only had to say a few words of comfort next to him, and he would rest in peace.

Some people also say that corpses will not recognize their relatives, as long as there are signs of life, they will choke their necks, never let go, and even eat people.

There is also a saying that when the ancestral hall is good, people in the surrounding area should be careful whether there is a cat, because the cat will jump the corpse, and then the corpse will move and then find relatives to hold, until the hug will lie down again, if so, the relatives must immediately take off their clothes and throw the coat to him to hug.

In some areas, when someone in the family dies, the family will carry his body to the ancestral hall and bury it after three or five days of worship. In this process, someone must guard the spirit in the ancestral hall every night, and the main task of the spirit keeper is to drive away the cat in the ancestral hall and not let it get close to the body, otherwise there will be a corpse change, and suddenly stand up and choke the person's neck until the person suffocates.

Therefore, when guarding the spirit, be careful not to let the cat pass over the corpse, or even get close.

Next to the ancestral hall, some straw is usually prepared. If such a thing happens unfortunately, the person next to him should quickly cover the body that suddenly jumped up with straw, so that it would be quietly at the mercy of others and lie back down again.

Take stock of the twelve legends of the Chinese cat demon

5 Cat Monsters:

Yuan Ming of the Qing Dynasty wrote "Zi Bu Shu", similar to Liaozhai's Zhiwei novel, which has a story of a cat monster

It is said that the maid of the Jingjiang Zhang family is very beautiful, and there is a green-eyed man who teases her, and later sleeps together. His thing was like a thorn, and it was very painful. Zhang Shi suspected that it was a cat monster, so he went to various places to seek spells, but he could not restrain the cat monster. Soon the thunder killed a giant cat, the size of a donkey.

Take stock of the twelve legends of the Chinese cat demon

Quoted from: Zi Mu Shu Vol. XXIV ——

Jingjiang Zhangshi, living in the south of the city, there is a ditch in the corner of the house, Jiufu is sparse, the rain is not stopping, and the water overflows in the church. Zhang used a bamboo pole to pass through it, into the Zhangxu, the pole could not come out, several people dragged it without moving, suspected of being stuck in the mud. The sky is clear, the pole comes out, the black gas is like a snake, with the pole, the heavens and the earth are obscure, and there are green-eyed people riding on the black to play their wives. Every time it is intercourse, its yin is like a thorn, and the pain is unbearable.

Zhang Guang asked for spells, and the Taoist priest ascended to the altar to rule him. The black qi rises from the altar, and if there is a person who licks things, the tongue where it is licked is like a knife, the skin and flesh are rotten, and the Taoist priest runs wildly. The Taoist priest was trained by the Heavenly Master and had no choice but to buy a boat to cross the river. Zhang Renren followed and would call for help from the Celestial Master. At the heart of the river, seeing the black clouds in the sky, the Daoist priest prayed and congratulated: "This demon has been cursed by thunder!" Zhang Guijia looked at it, and the corner of the house shook a cat to death, as big as a donkey.

6 cat ghosts

Also known as cats, it is the ghost of cats. It is said that ancient witches could raise and manipulate it to harm people for profit.

After the cat dies, it will become a cat ghost like a person. The warlock uses the cat ghost to kill his designated person and seize his property. Therefore, warlocks often deliberately kill cats to increase the number of cat ghosts.

Once people are entangled with the "cat ghost", the body and the heart will be like needle prick pain, at this time, the "cat ghost" is devouring people's internal organs, the victim is said to first limbs like needle prick pain, followed by this symptom throughout the body, and finally reach the heart, when the heart appears needle prick, the victim will vomit blood, increasingly weak, and finally the blood died, and the victim's property will also be magically transferred to the home of the person who raised it. Its body shape is invisible to the human eye, and while it is painful, it will also make people have a strong sense of fear.

Cat ghosts flourished during the Sui Dynasty, and a large number of cats were killed. The Empress's younger brother was called Dugu Tuo, who was fond of evil Daoist arts by nature, and his maternal grandmother Gao Shi had a cat ghost.

One day, the empress and Yang Su's wife, Zheng Shi, were both ill and summoned doctors to see them, and the doctors all said, "This is a cat ghost disease." ”

The empress suspected that Dugu Tuo had done it, and arranged for the chancellor Yang Yuan to check on him, and to check on Du Gutuo's maid Xu Ani. Ani said that the lonely family had cats and ghosts, and sacrificed them with rats. Cat ghosts kill every time. The belongings of the deceased will be secretly transferred to the owner's house of the cat ghost.

Dugu Tuo once wanted to drink, but did not have the money to buy wine. (The queen's brother can't afford to buy wine?) )。 The wife asked Ani to drive the cat ghost to Yang Su's house, and Ani cast a spell, and a few days later, the cat ghost went to Yang Su's house. Later, when Dugu Tuo found out that the queen had money, he asked Ani to drive the cat ghost to the queen's bedchamber. Ani cast another spell, and the cat ghost entered the palace

Yang Yuan found out everything and asked Ani to call back to the cat ghost, and Ani placed a basin of fragrant porridge in the night, and used a spoon to buckle the porridge basin and exclaimed: "Cat, you are coming back soon." Soon after, Arnie's face was yellow and black, saying that the cat ghost had returned.

The emperor was furious and gave death to Dugu Tuo and his wife.

Take stock of the twelve legends of the Chinese cat demon

Image from the Chinese Monster Dictionary

Take stock of the twelve legends of the Chinese cat demon

Image from the 100th issue of "Hundred Ghosts"

Quoted from: "Book of Sui, Biography of Foreign Relatives, Dugu Tuo":

Dugu Tuo is good at left dao, and his maternal grandmother Gao Shi first did cat ghosts and transferred to the Tuo family. Empress Huixian and Yang Su's wife Zheng Shi both had diseases, and the summoners regarded them as saying, "This cat ghost disease is also." "The half-brother of Empress Shangyi and the half-sister of Yang Su, the wife of Tuo, were committed by Yi Tuo and made the case pushed. Tuo Zi Xu Ani said, things cats and ghosts, every day and night worship. Sub-rats also. Every time the cat ghost kills someone, the property of the dead family is submerged to the animal cat ghost's house. Tuo tasted vegetarian wine from home, and his wife said: "There is no money to be drunk." Because of the ani, "You can make the cat ghost go to the Yue gong family, so that I can have enough money." "Ani cursed it. A few days later, the cat ghost went to the Su family. Later, when shangchu returned from the state, Tuo Yu said in the garden: "Let the cat and the ghost give more to the queen, so that I can give more things." "Ani repeated the curse and entered the palace. Yang Yuan sent Ani to call the cat ghost, and Ani then placed a basin of fragrant porridge in the middle of the night, and called out with a key buckle: "Catwoman can come, there is no residence in the palace." "For a long time, Ani's face was yellow and blue, and if he was dragged, the cloud cat ghost had arrived." The Husband and Wife of the Lord's Sudhar died.

7 Jinhua cats

After three years of raising this cat, every time it comes to the middle of the night, it will crouch on the roof, open its mouth to the moon, absorb the essence of the moon, and over time it will become a monster, always come out to charm people, meet women to become beautiful men, meet men to become beautiful women.

Quoted from "Cat Garden Spirit"

Jinhua cat, after three years of animals, every mid-night, squatting on the house, reaching out to the moon, sucking its essence, long become strange, every charming, every woman becomes a beautiful man, every man becomes a beautiful woman. Whenever people go to people's homes, they drown in the water first, and when people drink them, they will not see their form. Whenever a strange creature comes, he will cover himself with a green coat at night, and if there is hair, he will sneak up on the hunter, lead the dogs, go to the house to catch the cat, burn his flesh to eat the sick, and heal himself; if the male is sick and gets the male, and the female is sick and the female is sick, it will not be cured. Zhang Guangwen had a daughter, eighteen years old, invaded by the monster, and fell to the end, and then hunted the male cat to cure it, and the disease began to be paralyzed.

8 cats into sperm

The method of artificially making cat essence, using forty-nine broad beans, soaked in yin and yang water, buried in the ground on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, and then let the cat sit on it, chant some incantations, and after seven days the cat will become a sperm.

India, whose cats have flesh wings, can fly. "Jegu Pearl Sac":

With forty-nine broad beans, yin and yang water soaked in the Dragon Boat Festival, mantra, buried in the northwest of the underground, so that the cat on it, seven days into a cat essence.

9 flying cats

As the name suggests, a cat that can fly

Quoted from: "Kun Yu Wai Ji" Indea, its cat has flesh wings and can fly.

Take stock of the twelve legends of the Chinese cat demon

10 double-headed cat-headed people

The human body, the head is the head of two cats, the two cats have horns on the heads, and the highest part of the horns has eyes. Hands up to the knees, the body is both female and male.

Quoted from: The Thirty-Eighth Time of the Twenty-Four Histories of Popular Interpretation:

A Shandong woman gives birth to a child, with a double cat head, a horn on the head, an eye at the top of the horn, a hand hanging over the knee, and a male and female body.

11 Cat Generals

There is a cat general temple in Vietnam, and the human body cat's head, Chinese to make a wish, is often very magical

Quoted from the Cat Garden volume:

Annam and cat general temple, its god cat head human body, very spiritual, Chinese the past will pray to the end of the blame. Or the cloud cat is the blackmail of the hair. The former Ming Mao Shangshu was once peaceful in the south, so there is this temple. Guo'er, is the reason for Wu Zi's hair and Du Shi's aunt, but Bo Yi Gimmick. Jieyang Chen Shengsan on the list.

Take stock of the twelve legends of the Chinese cat demon

Image from "Towards the Ghost"

12 cats talk

As the name suggests, cats can talk.

Gong Ji, a native of Poyang, rushed to enter the army, and all kinds of demons appeared in his family, and he summoned witches to govern. At that time, there was a cat lying by the fire, and the family pointed it out to the witch and said, "Nothing is wrong in my family, only this cat, there is no strange phenomenon." As soon as the words stopped, the cat stood up like a human, arched his hands and said, "Don't you dare." The witch was frightened and fled. After a few days, the good news from Gong Jizhongju came, and he realized that demons and demons are not necessarily all evils.

Quoted from "The Continuing Ink Guest Swings the Rhinoceros"

Gong Ji of Poyang, Ying Jin Shiju, and his family demons competed to summon witches to rule them. There was a cat lying on the side of the stove, and the family pointed out to Wu Yue: "Everything in my family is different, not different, only this cat's ear." So the cat stood up and said, "Don't you dare." "Wu was horrified and galloped away. For a few days, the sound of the sound arrived, and the demon may not be a disaster.