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Many Chinese legends devoted to a tiger. In China, as in most other countries where tigers live the King, the most cruel and treacherous Representatives of this type of mammals considered to lyudoedam. However, the Chinese did not explain such superstition that man is an easy prey, or that allegedly once tried human flesh, predators can not get rid of the addiction to it, and that to find the next victim of the new-man-eater tiger spirit leads them to the last sedennoy the victim, called changuy. Thus was created an entire class of evil demons, not having an animal character and non-animal-negotiable. These demons - the ghosts of people, employees or animals living in their bodies. The main advantage, which gives a tiger-lyudoedu Chang, is that the soul of the deceased allows hischniku go on following a new human victim, as she is eager to free themselves from slavery, but it can do so only if the will find «replacement». Those souls Chinese were among the most dangerous spirits, because they are constantly encouraged animals to cannibalism. But the soul hate their servitude, and are sometimes exempted from the power of his striped ruler, zamanivaya it in pits and traps, rasstavlennye his enemies.
Here are a few legends about these daemons.
In Sinyane, in Jiangsu Province, one hunter to make a living fishing tigers. He set up next to any tropinkoy crossbow and every day to check this place. He constantly found traces of tiger paws and run flat string crossbow, but the boom did not reach the animal. Remembering the old belief that man eaten tiger, it becomes Chang, hunter climbed a tree nearby and began to wait. After the second, he saw little lohmatogo ghost in a blue dress. Ghost cautiously approached crossbows, produced a boom and exiting. Soon came the tiger, potoptalsya near arbaletom and went further. Now, the hunter knew what business he has invested in another crossbow arrow and hid. The ghost of all made in exactly the same as that for the first time. Then the hunter quickly sprygnul from the tree, again put the boom and took refuge in a tree. Almost immediately came Tiger. When he start the cord, crossbow shooting. Arrow got a tiger just under the rib, and that He gave up His spirit. This time the ghost appears only after a long time. Seeing that the tiger is dead, he started to jump and clap hands in joy, and then disappeared.
Often, the ghost not only helps the tiger, and even manages to take the power over them and become stronger than him. This makes changui doubly dangerous, as evidenced by the following legend.
In Tsinchzhou, in Henan province, one person, such as passing through the mountains, collided with the back-Gui, who put a tiger skin and thereby transformed it into a game. Within three or four years, became the tiger people are undivided power ghost. He killed and pozhral a great many people, livestock and wild animals. However, while he was in the guise of a tiger, his soul opposed to such acts. Once changuy off the gate of the tiger for a Buddhist monastery. The beast took the opportunity and fled into the barn, where the monks hid under the bed - keeper storehouse. Perepugannaya brethren pomchalas to настоятелю to inform him about what happened, and then one chansky teacher, who was at that time in the convent and umevshy tame wild animals, went to the place where the hidden tiger. «My dear pupil, - he said, putting his hand on a tiger - that you want from us? You want to eat us, or you just pryacheshsya under the cover of the beast? »Here tiger down your ears and eyes of his polilis tears. Chansky teacher tied round the neck animal towel and took him to his cell, where he became fed regular food, eaten by people and animals. After six months of the tiger had hair, he took a human face and the details of its history. Within two years he has not left the monastery, but after this period, began to go beyond the gate and once collided with a ghost. A ghost once again put a tiger skin, and he pomchalsya back to the monastery. At this time the tiger skin touched just below his waist, so tigerish form acquired only the lower half of the body. Then he zasel of sutras, and in over a year, repeated their zeal, in the end, he again became man. For he did not dare to cross the monastery gates, and died there.
Virtually all popular in China about changui described in detail in one of the legends, which tells how the ghost entered the body of his mother and told her lips on his zloklyucheniyah during his stay in captivity at the tiger.