Translator: Pika

  “Mount Gouwu is filled with jade above and copper within. Around it roams a beast with the body of a goat and face of a man. Its eyes are beneath its armpits, with fangs and claws of a tiger. Its cry sounds like the wailing of an infant. It is known as the paoxiao, a man-eating beast.”


  This was a record from the ‘Classic of Mountains[1] and Seas’ from ancient China. Its description was way too similar to the beast that they were seeing below them.

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