#bingfeng

[dorothygale123]

Part 1

Sorry, Tumblr has a 10 image limit, so I had to split this into 2 posts. Back to the cute figures I don't need and will not buy like the responsible adult I am!

Bingfeng is kinda like if two pigs got smooshed together, booty first. Apparently two heads make it twice as stubborn (talk about boar headed, am I right?).

Next.

A floofy little kitty, so cute! Though more often it's compared to a fox or a ferret, it's 100% adorable. In fact, it's considered to be a great pet as just being with it can ease all worries (as real cat owners can affirm).

Next.

No, this is not the birb form of Erlang Shen, though it does have his third eye. Looking mostly like a normal owl except for the extra eye and sounding like a deer for some reason, this little guy was more likely to end up on your plate than as a pet. Apparently eating this cutie could cure certain illnesses, but the guilt you feel will be forever.

Next!

A multi-eared monkey? This seems familiar... but no, this is not Liu'er Mihou, the Six Eared Macaque from JttW, but an entirely different simian with extra hearing holes. This is Chang You, and I couldn't find much about him either. All I could get was that he lives on a mountain (also named Chang You, confusingly), sounded like a person singing, and was an omen of floods in the area, hence the water. He has some overlap with Wuzhiqi, another flood-associated primate, though they don't seem to be related. Perhaps in another sh*tpost....

Next!

Last but not least, Tao Tie! He's actually part of a set with Hundun that I'll talk about some other time that parallels the 4(5) Guardian Beasts called the 4 Fiends. This guy eats everything. The only thing that kept him from eating the whole world was accidentally eating itself!

Whew.

I feel better now, and I totally still don't need these figures at all. Nope, I don't need them one bit!

Seriously.

I don't.

Sh*tpost Masterlist

[cryptids-of-the-world]

The Bingfeng is a two-headed pig found in Chinese mythology. The Bingfeng is described as a pig with a head at each end of its body. One head of the Bingfeng is said to be male and the other head is said to be female and the Bingfeng is said to be very smart due to its two heads. Some experts believe that the Bingfeng could be pigs that were born as conjoined twins which is fairly common in the animal kingdom however most animals born this way would have two face and if they do have two heads they aren’t on opposite sides of their bodies.

[lpbestiary]

The ch'ou t'i is a bizarre creature from Chinese folklore that has a head at either side of its body. Descriptions of it vary, with some saying that its heads are porcine and others saying they more closely resemble dogs.

The ch'ou t'i's two heads are said to make it very stubborn. Jorge Luis Borges said the creature lives in the southern wilds between the Red River and the Desert of Shifting Sands.

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Monster master list.

Suggest a spook.