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Mythical creatures – inexhaustible food source

special group of mythical creatures were animals used for human inexhaustible source of food. Most other animal is mentioned magic shizhou. It was a living creature, quite devoid of bones and limbs, who are only meat, but with a pair of young eyes. According to legend, it was not to eat meat without the rest: eat a piece, but at this point increases of the same, and shizhou is regaining its former shape. Also describes the cow, which cut off a large piece of meat, and after a day of it again growing at the same location. Her body was black, the horns are thin and long – more than four-chi (ie, nearly one and a half meters). At least every ten days, it was necessary to cut off its portion of the meat, otherwise it may die. And still kept tradition of sheep with unusually thick and heavy tail, which weighed about ten Jingye (five kilograms), are cut off its tail and it was prepared from the food. Over time, these sheep again grew the same tail.

Fantastic sea dwellers

Met fantastic creatures and among the inhabitants of the sea.
Once a merchant vessel went to sea for their trading business. Far away in the open sea, he saw a small island, porosshy emerald-green trees. Merchant seamen brought it to the island. All vyprygnuli to shore and tied the vessel. Then cut the branches and razozhgli fire to cook food. But the water has not yet managed to zakipet as they felt that the island zadvigalsya and trees have been submerged. Perepugannye people perplexed rushed to the vessel, pererubili line and save his life, poplyli away from a sinking island. It turned out that this was not an island, a huge crab, which fire a fire opalil shell.
Also told that in the southern seas of people-lived fish. And while they lived at sea, but were engaged in normal human labor. In a quiet night, when the sea calm and no waves on the shore was heard coming from the depths of the sea noise looms. Amazing beautiful sea pearls, which many in the depths of the southern seas – is nothing but traces of human-fish.
People-fish were very similar to ordinary people, all of them – men and women – to have great beauty. Its thin white leather resembling jade, and their hair like horse tails, reaching five to six chi (more than a half feet) in length. When it comes to coastal residents dying wife or husband, they caught the man-fish, settle in a small pond and narekali her wife or husband.

Category People and substance of the myths

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