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Fantastic creatures

Of fantastical creatures who inhabited the ancient world met polulyudi-poluzveri.
The country Syaoyan lived dikari. Height, they were more Zhang (about three meters), and called them stupid giants. They were human person, and black, glittering like a varnish, a body entirely covered with long hair. The legs of the savages sgibalis in the opposite direction, and they ran like the wind. Nrava these creatures were ill: they are caught and eaten people. Stupid giant country Syaoyan podsteregali in the mountains lone travelers, pesyu disclose his mouth, to the forehead vyvorachivaya huge lips, and began to nicker. Nasmeyavshis enough, Dhi Qar pozhirali their prey. But people think of a way to avoid them. It was necessary to put in the hands of hollow bamboo trunks, which uhvatitsya foolish man-eater. Wait when the monster starts to laugh, to be pulling out of the trunk of a dagger and prigvozdit his blood-red lip giant to his forehead. After that is easy to capture the monster alive: it is now his eyes and nose were closed lip, and he did not understanding, continued to sit, holding their paws in the bamboo tube.
In the vicinity of the country Syaoyan vodilis wonderful animals sinsin with pesim body and human face. The eyes they were very strict. These animals, unlike the giants, lyudoedov were extremely intelligent, able to talk to a human, and even hail passed people by name and surname, albeit usually at the sight of people they were hiding. But even such a clever and timidly substance could deceive and izlovit. To catch sinsin, deaf people in the mountains of putting a few jugs of wine, which was left near a few cups, cherpakov and wooden sandals, and they hid and watched to see what happens next. Sinsin saw rasstavlennye things idea that people have put some traps, and began to berate people in every possible way, perebiraya all their relatives to the eighth knee. They rugalis so long that they peresyhalo throat. Sinsin afraid of falling into the trap, but the thirst for proving stronger fear. Animals handled a little bit to try to drink, to be sure, not lies in whether the fault of something dangerous. The most ambitious of them approached closer to the pitchers, trying to taste wine. Then, in the course were cherpaki, and then the cup. Sinsin gradually lost caution, raised the noise and cry, drink wine as long as you can. Opustoshiv to the bottom of all the pitchers, they were found on the ground wooden sandals. All vying kidalis put them playing from the people themselves. Not gone and a few steps in wine sinsin fall over the land. Spryatavshiesya near people vybegali and firmly tied to ropes.
Poluzveri-polulyudi vodilis and many other places. The country Dinlin lived Bogatyrs with chelovechimi loshadinymi torso and legs covered with long hair. On the run, they hlestali themselves nagaykami in the legs and were worn on the steppe winds faster shouting «ha, ha, ha!», As wild geese in the autumn sky.
The inhabitants of the country had been Huzhen chelovechi and torso rybi. They have only their hands and did not have legs, and the lower part of the torso resemble fish tail. They can move in the clouds, rain, manage, easy to climb up to heaven and down to earth with him. They were descendants of the sun god Yan Di, and they live indefinitely, perhaps, were immortal.
In the southern areas of Ancient China could be found in mountain Xiao. These people like creature with a single leg, vyvernutoy in the opposite direction, not only Vili a nest in large hollow trees, but also put forth with wooden screens in the curtains to protect them from the wind. Travelers going in the province, with its mountainous Xiao, tried to get on the road some gifts for them. Once a traveler, fearing to meet with the tiger, climbed a tree to spend the night there, and collided with a female mountain Xiao. He came down from the tree several times and bowed respectfully called female «mountainous wife». When she asked him, that he brings, he gave her rouge and powder. Obradovannaya Xiao told putniku did not fear to take up overnight. He fell asleep right under a tree. At night there were two fierce tiger, but the mountainous Xiao down from a tree and shlepnuv predators on the head, ordered them to get out vosvoyasi and did not disturb her guest. Tigers left. The next morning, saying farewell to the traveler, she warmly thanked him for his gifts.
The so-called living on trees (like a mountain tribe polulyudey Xiao-poluzhivotnyh) raskalyvali trees on the board and then dump them, anchoring to the trunks of trees. While the merits and does not interact with people, but trade with them. In the old days, people hodivshie to them for the boards, left at the foot of trees of various items for the exchange of approximately equal value. Living in the trees off the items, and if they liked them, and brought the board without any fraud, according to justice. However, members of this exchange has never had face to face.

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Сентябрь 2010
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