Penghou
A Chinese tree spirit with the face of a human and the body of a dog.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 200 CE
- Attested period
- 200 – 1578
- Historical notes
- First described in the 3rd-century Baize tu and 4th-century Soushenji.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Pratyangira, Set, Tikbalang, Tumburu, Varaha, Zhu Bajie, Paasselkä devils, Pakhangba, Pamola, Panis, Patupairehe, Pegaeae, Pelesit, Perchta, Phi Tai Hong, Pillan, Pim-skwa-wagen-owad, Piru, Pita-skog, Pixie, Plakavac, Pok-wejee-men, Polevik, Pollo Maligno, Polong, Poltergeist, Pombero, Ponaturi, Pontianak, Poubi Lai, Pricolici, Psotnik, Psychai, Psyche, Baize, Jiafei, Yobuko, yamako, yamawaro, Minotaur, Anubis, Cynocephalus, Bastet, Daksha, Ganesha, Hayagriva, Horse-Face, Keibu Keioiba, Khnum, Maahes, Pakhet, Sekhmet, Tefnut, Nandi, Narasimha, Ox-Head, Pishacha, Preta, Pan
- manifests as
- yamabiko
Mentioned by
- Minotaur
- Anubis
- Cynocephalus
- Bastet
- Daksha
- Ganesha
- Hayagriva
- Horse-Face
- Keibu Keioiba
- Khnum
- Maahes
- Pakhet
- Sekhmet
- Tefnut
- Nandi
- Narasimha
and 4 more
Sources
Source passages
“Penghou – A Chinese tree spirit with the face of a human and the body of a dog.”
#4722 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Penghou (Chinese) – Tree spirit”
#5231 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The Penghou (Chinese: 彭侯; pinyin: Pénghóu; Wade–Giles: P'eng-hou, pronounced [pʰə̌ŋ.xǒʊ]; literally: "drumbeat marquis") is a tree spirit from Chinese mythology and folklore. Two Chinese classics record similar versions of the Penghou myth.”
#8611 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“as it is thought that tree spirits would cause yamabiko to occur, they are also seen to be the same as the yōkai penghou that lives in trees. In collections of yōkai depictions like the Hyakkai Zukan and the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, the yamabiko that looks like a dog is thought to be based on the yamako or the penghou.”
#8797 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001