See general note on editing . In it there is a great snake with nine heads and one tail. In the morning it eats 3,000 and in the evening it eats 800. Now there is no doubt that this mokkan is what is called a majinai mokkan, in other words, a charm, to ward off the disease. Upon peremptory examination, the term seems to be associated with longevity.
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Mokkan from 737 An initial comment on the mokkan. This whole thing sounds terribly Korean, with the reference to Tang demons etc. He was a scholar from Zhong Nan Shan I R who failed one of the imperial exams and subsequently killed himself. His main activities are stopping epidemics and killing demons. I think he prefers to eat them.