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31 Monsters!
Oct. 4th, 2010 08:16 pmOoh, we have a Chinese monster tonight, and my what a ghastly creature it is!
Jiang Shi, which translates to 'stiff corpse', are reanimated corpses that hop around, killing living creatures to absorb life essence from their victims.
They are said to be created when a person's soul fails to leave the deceased's body, due to improper death,suicide, or just wanting to cause trouble.
That last part is my favorite. "I am going to be a Jiang Shi because I just want to cause trouble. Muahahaha!"
In the movies, jiang shi can be put to sleep by putting a piece of yellow paper with a spell written on it on their foreheads. Generally in the movies the jiang shi are dressed in imperial Qing Dynasty clothes, their arms permanently outstretched due to rigor mortis. Like those depicted in Western movies, they tend to appear with outrageously long tongues and long razor sharp black fingernails.
They can be evaded by holding one's breath, as they track living creatures by detecting their breathing. Chicken's eggs and the blood of black dogs will repel them, too. Yay?
(I have to wonder how the chicken's eggs help. Do you throw the eggs at them? Build a fort out of them? Make them delicious scrambled eggs to distract? Hmm!)
Jiang Shi, which translates to 'stiff corpse', are reanimated corpses that hop around, killing living creatures to absorb life essence from their victims.
They are said to be created when a person's soul fails to leave the deceased's body, due to improper death,suicide, or just wanting to cause trouble.
That last part is my favorite. "I am going to be a Jiang Shi because I just want to cause trouble. Muahahaha!"
In the movies, jiang shi can be put to sleep by putting a piece of yellow paper with a spell written on it on their foreheads. Generally in the movies the jiang shi are dressed in imperial Qing Dynasty clothes, their arms permanently outstretched due to rigor mortis. Like those depicted in Western movies, they tend to appear with outrageously long tongues and long razor sharp black fingernails.
They can be evaded by holding one's breath, as they track living creatures by detecting their breathing. Chicken's eggs and the blood of black dogs will repel them, too. Yay?
(I have to wonder how the chicken's eggs help. Do you throw the eggs at them? Build a fort out of them? Make them delicious scrambled eggs to distract? Hmm!)