Preta (Sanskrit: प्रेत, Standard Tibetan: ཡི་དྭགས་ yi dags), also known as hungry ghost, is the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese and Vietnamese folk religion as…
Read More Preta (Demon)The three-legged (or tripedal) crow (simplified Chinese: 三足乌; traditional Chinese: 三足烏; pinyin: sān zú wū) is a creature found in various mythologies and arts of East Asia. It is believed by East Asian cultures to…
Read More Three-legged crowPixiu (Chinese: 貔貅; pinyin: píxiū; Wade–Giles: P’i-hsiu), is a Chinese mythical hybrid creature, commonly (but incorrectly) referred to in the West by the Greek word “chimera”, and considered a powerful protector of practitioners of Feng…
Read More PixiuThe moon rabbit in folklore is a rabbit that lives on the Moon, based on pareidolia that identifies the markings of the Moon as a rabbit. The folklore originated in China, and then spread to…
Read More Moon rabbitA jiangshi, also known as a Chinese “hopping” zombie, is a type of reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore. “Jiangshi” is read geung-si in Cantonese, Phi Dip Chin in Thai, cương thi in Vietnamese,…
Read More JiangshiHuli jing (Chinese: 狐狸精; literally: ‘fox spirit’) or jiuweihu (九尾狐; literally: ‘nine-tailed fox’) are Chinese mythological creatures who can be either good or bad spirits.
Read More Huli jingFenghuang (simplified Chinese: 凤凰; traditional Chinese: 鳳凰; pinyin: fènghuáng; Wade–Giles: fêng⁴-huang²) are mythological birds found in East Asian mythology that reign over all other birds. The males were originally called feng and the females huang…
Read More FenghuangDenglong (simplified Chinese: 蹬龙; traditional Chinese: 蹬龍), or Wangtianhou (Chinese: 望天吼), Chaotianhou (Chinese: 朝天吼), or simply Hou (Chinese: 犼) is a Chinese legendary creature.
Read More DenglongBixi, or Bi Xi (Wade–Giles: Pi-hsi), is a figure from Chinese mythology. One of the 9 sons of the Dragon King, he is depicted as a dragon with the shell of a turtle. Stone sculptures…
Read More BixiBashe (Chinese: 巴蛇; pinyin: bāshé; Wade–Giles: pa-she) was a python-like Chinese mythological giant snake that ate elephants.
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