Friday, September 13, 2013

MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: WHEN IS A HONG KONG WILDMAN NOT A WILDMAN?


When is a Hong Kong wild man not a Hong Kong wild man? When I get carried away with myself and think he was talking about a Yeren or something.... This note below is a clarification by Tung from the Gwulo.com web site. But I am following up the 'fairy' story he mentions (see below) and will follow up the Silver Chics (sic) too. Are there any silver-coloured baby birds in S. China, anyone?
“The long-eared wild man we saw , around 1953-54, was half-naked, perking on the bushland bordered between this hidden valley and the CLCY village. He was also seen covered with fur skin and leafy clothing with weird hair decorations from seashells, eyes so red like being on fires and voiced very low-pitched as a very old man. He was big, more hairy than normal, kind looking and quite majestic, like a Chief from the Amazon forest. His ears were very big, long and curled up with hairy tip on each top. He smoked with a very long bamboo pipe and seemed always on guard on his tiny territory with a rod like a prophet under the torching sun, sometimes eagles and ravens flying in circle in the sky above. More than once he wanted us to come closed to his den which was like an opening to some unknown shelter next to this forest. For the sake of our parental advice, we never accept his plea, our curiosity always directs our thinking that he might be a fairy because  his location was on the edge of the area known as Sen Yan Jiang which means The Fairy's Well.
real mystery,
and that's not the only fairy we knew (?) on the island.
Anyone know about this one: A legendary story of the " Flock of Silver Chics in the Bamboo Forest near Pai Tai Temple"
Believe it or not! “(1)

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