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Brotherhood Beyond Fear in “Hacking the Boa”
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Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio’s “Chopping the Python” (Hacking the Boa) recounts the ordeal of two Hu brothers in remote mountains.
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Hacking the Boa
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Two brothers surnamed Hu from Hutian Village walked into a deep mountain ravine. There they came upon a huge boa. As the elder brother was walking in front, the boa caught him first. At first, the frightened younger brother was going to run away, but when he saw that the boa had swallowed part…
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Serpent Bonds in “The Snake Charmer”
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Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio: The Snake Charmer (The Snakeman) recounts the story of a snake tamer from East Prefecture and his bond with two green snakes — Big Green (Elder Green) and Second Green.
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The Snakeman
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A man living in East Prefecture was a snake-tamer by profession. At one point, he reared two green snakes, the bigger one he called Big Green, and ‘the smaller one, Second Green. The latter had several red spots on its forehead and was particularly clever. It weaved about and danced just the way the…
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Soul transmigration of the Monk from Changqing
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“The Monk of Changqing” from Strange Stories from Liaozhai Studio recounts how an octogenarian Buddhist monk from Shandong’s Changqing County peacefully passes away, only for his soul to unexpectedly transmigrate into the body of a young aristocratic heir in Henan who died in an accident.