The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-01

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CHINESE MiTGs AND sToRIEs.
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Avery remarkable fact concerning
Chinese folklore Is the strange simi-
'3ai1 between Chinese myths and
storfes and those Of Western Europe.
Here is . tale'the analogue Of (which is
found Almost everywhere in Western
folklore. The Seven Sleepers of
Ephesus, the medieval romance Of
0Rier le Danois, and the old Gaelic le-
gend on which that romance is based,
Of Oisin's sojourn in the land of youth,
are q few Of the many forms which It
takes in the West. The Chinese story
Is IS follows: 1.-TWO friends wander
among the mountains culling simples.
At fairy bridge, the azure bridge, they
find on guard two maidens of more than
earthly beauty. Come across the
bridge, cry the maidens. This done.
the friends are fed on huma (hemp, the
Chinese hasheesh), and falling deeply
in love with their hostesses, spend with
them in the Jasper City what seems the
short though blissfui period of q few
days. At length they are seized with
. desire to visit their earthly home. and
ON getting back they find that seven
generations have passed, and they have
become more than centenarians." The
story is given in the Liao chat chih vi,
with the date A. d. 60 to 20, and the
names OF the two friends! -zg5 2
Another equally circumstantia tale
records how Wang Chih. one of the
ratriarchs of the Taouist sect. waavene
dayl eath/rins fire-Wood, i'm The Sun-
ta;ns Of NuTY YoR. when baj anteISd a
grotto where some old men were deem
ms osrns q chess. He laid down his
Al sud Wstehed sthean,, whsFenu.n 6ae
Of the old men handed him m.what looked
like a adate-stone. telling him to put +
in his mouth.3 No sooner had he tasted
it than he ceased to feel hunger and
thirst. nByzand- by one of the players
said IS II 3 long since Won; came .hefee
you should 20 home ! now.''u Wang
Chih went to take np his az, and found
the handle had moldeted' into dust
Undisr1ayed, Howsevveef,7 sevef he went home,
bdt ,sfounsd th6s centuries had passed
sinceu euheVwansIonszWd6Geutting9 No
vestigs of his kissfolk rpsmained d. sThA
end Of this tale is certainly un-Euro-
pean; for Wang Chih retreats. to q cell
In the mountains, and deyoting himself
TO religious exercise, finally atfains- i'm
mortaEty.
-,Sometimess the heyuisclieyoue f,irvais
almost idcnfifed With one OF the mon.
kew tribs. mus man with q very
pretty wife, travelling near Chang-tih,
was warned that hard byr lived q 'shen
who was eivsns to misunderstanding. He
hid bis-wife in an inner room: hut in
the fourth watch of the second nioht
she was carried of. He sought her
high and low. his romantic and Perilous
adTentmes being described in "The
History Of the White Monkey" by
KuR sYsing. AtTlast he came 10 q
stone 1o0ri IN the ,8ce Of q mountain.
Some women, who were passing in and
out, told him his wife was there. Get
us, ,said they 50 ten dogs, two barrels
Of .spirits. and q quantity of hempen
rope, and We viii try to deliver her ,foi
you.s After all these things had been
provided the shen came in, and drank
the 10WlLS AND ate the QOQS. and while
he was 9orped and helpless the women
bound him TO the bed. They called In
the hpsbspd. who fousd that be was an
enormous monkey. He straightway
killed hin. eandzB6t free. not his own
wife QAly, but inaay other Woneu vic
Wero nd n onptivity. sYalkihg %
monkeys, we may remark that they, as
well as men, are supposed to have
ghosts. A Aman in Canton. named Ling.
had had Q yuan monkey, in his family
forty years. This species Is supposed
to grow to q very large size if it is al.
lowed to drink plenty of water; and as
Ling preferred q small monkey, his pei
WAS ifeptg on short water allowance.
One day the monkey snatched q CUP
out of the hand, of Ling's youngest son
ana drained N Oh. The fkther gave
him rood whipping, twhereupon the
monkey sulked, refused food, and died
in a few days. Soon after his ghos,
began to haunt the houses, strange
noises were heard, food unaccountably
disappeared. and at last fire broke
ont. Ling moved into another house,
but the ghost moved, too; and at las,
he was compelled to take refuge in the
temple of the five hundred worthless.
Here the ghost did not dare to follow
him; and not many years ago the family
might be seen housed in the temple
| everybody in the quarter knew for wha,
reason.