old woman
demonic earth Baining people single tradition · 2
The old woman is dressed in black and claims to be Bai's grandmother. She invites Xuanzan to her home, where she and the lady in white eat the organs of a young man. She is later revealed to be an otter demon.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 1174 CE
- Attested period
- 1174 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in a story from the Chunxi era (1174–1189).
Relationships
- enemy of
- Xi Zhenren
- allied with
- Bai, Maonu, lady in white
- manifests as
- otter
- manifested by
- Äbädä
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“After more than ten days, an old woman dressed in black arrived in a sedan chair, claiming to be the grandmother. She invited Xuanzan to her home to thank him.”
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“In the beginning the sea was only a tiny water-hole from which an old woman got the saltwater to flavor her food, which she kept concealed under a cover of tapa cloth. One day, her sons tore open the cover; the farther they tore, the larger became the water-hole.”
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