Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Reading Notes: Part B: Chinese Folktales

The Flying Ogre
The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921)
  • Buddhist monk comes across a beautiful girl running in the forrest
  • She asks him not to tell that he saw her, that someone is pursing her
  • Monk ran into man on horse, asked if he had scene the girl in the red coat
  • Man urged him not to lie that she was a flying ogre
  •  Man went after Ogre who was in the tree
  • She sent an arrow through him
The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921)
Pink chrysanthemums: Thegardenhelper
  • Ma learned everything from his father, window that looked out to chrysanthemums
  • Ma observed old Wang and a water carrier, they got into a dispute and the Wang fell
  • Constable came out and said that it was a slip of death
  • Ma now 21, and its only him
  • Ma began to realize that the water-carrier had returned to be born again into the life of earth and not to exact retribution
  • He came to the Li's house
The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921)
Fire ball: Fireball
  • Young farmer sees something that looks like a dog
  • The dog breathes fire and draws it back in
  • Ended up being a fox with this power of fire
  • Farmer boy acquired the skill of talking with ghosts and devils
  • Fox took back his fire from the man who had grown rich of it

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