In the canon
Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio
Pu Songling
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1766
- Originally in
- Originally in Classical Chinese
- Pages
- Pages 560
A demon peels off a painted human skin, spreads it across the bed, touches up the face with a brush, then puts it on again and walks out among the living. That is one tale of nearly five hundred here, in which foxes take the shape of women better read than the men who fall in love with them, and the clerks of hell accept bribes exactly as the clerks of earth do.
a hideous devil, with a green face and jagged teeth like a saw, spreading a human skin upon the bed and painting it
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