JO. I 



CHUAN MIAO SONGS AND STORIES — GRAHAM 



ointed by Ntz'i especially to cause people to 

 lie. These two came into the world and each 

 iisplayed ability. Go Nao Nun ate people on 

 he upper terrace. Je Dii also went to the 

 pper terrace. Go Nao Nun ate people on 

 iie lower terrace. Je Dii also went to the 

 3wer terrace (to oppose him). For a long 

 ime Go Nao Nun was unable to eat people. 

 One day Je Dii went to heal people, and 

 hat demon came and carried away Ju Dii's 

 vife. When the demon arrived at Je Dii's 

 lome he opened his mouth as big and red as 

 . bowl to catch a slaughtered pig's blood, 

 howing his teeth with which he ate people. 

 ie ordered the woman to go with him, and 

 f she did not he would eat her. She was 

 lelpless and went with him. But they had 

 1 son named Nga Go (little chicken). Not 

 ong afterward Je Dii came back home and 

 isked his son, "Where is your mother.?" The 

 on said to him, "Today Go Nao Nun came. 

 Allien he went to the upper terrace to eat 

 )eople, you went to the upper terrace. When 

 le went to the lower flat to eat people, you 

 vent there also. Now he had nobody to eat, 

 ;o he carried mother away." 



Je Dii then told his son to stay at home, 

 ind he himself carried on his back his im- 

 plements for controlling demons ^^ and went 

 ifter the demon. He went for a day and a 

 light, and went into the home of a Chinese. 

 In this Chinese home there were only the 

 lusband and the wife. When they saw that 

 [e Dii was a tuan kting, they gladly enter- 

 :ained him and he stayed there that night. 

 When he went to bed the Chinese man and 

 lis wife discussed the matter and said, "This 

 guest is a man of ability. We should give him 

 1 good meal." The Chinese man's wife said, 

 ■'Tomorrow we can kill a chicken for him to 

 :at." But while they were talking the chickens 

 beard it. The rooster said, "Tonight I will 

 deep outside and let the master kill me and 

 leave the mother hen to care for the baby 

 rhicks." 



The two chickens slept a long time. Then 

 they again said, "If the guest waits until he 

 sats our flesh, then he cannot catch the demon. 

 If he does not wait to eat, then he can catch 

 up with him, for tomorrow the dragon king 

 will go down into the sea to play. He can 

 wait until the dragon king has arrived and 

 climb onto the horns of the dragon king, and 

 the dragon king will carry him up into the 

 sky.^2 Je Dij followed his wife's footprints 

 and went to the home of Gao Nao Nun. 



^^ A red cloth bag with a net in it made of 

 paper, a seal for printing charms to control de- 

 mons, etc. 



^2 It is said that the dragon's body was in the 



At that time the demon had gone out to 

 find somebody to eat. Only the wife of Je Dii 

 was in the house. His wife took three bowls 

 of iron filings and gave it to her husband to 

 eat.^^ But he could not eat it. His wife said 

 to him, 'Tou had better hide lest he come 

 and fight you." Then Je Dii went and hid. 



Go Nao Nun flew back and lighted on a 

 large tree and then came down. He went to 

 the creek to wash the teeth with which he 

 ate people. He washed out very red lumps 

 of blood. When he had finished washing 

 them he came into his home. He told Je Dii's 

 wife to cook some iron filings for him to eat. 



When he had finished eating, he went to 

 sleep. Afterward he went out every day to eat 

 people. 



When the Miao tuan \ung saw tliat the 

 dragon had gone out, he came down and 

 talked to his wife. He took three bamboo 

 trees and made bows and arrows with them. 



The demon was away three days before he 

 came back. When he arrived, he alighted as 

 usual on that tree. Je Dii took a poison arrow 

 and shot it and hit the demon in the pit 

 under his wing. He fell down and soon died. 

 Then Je Dii came back to take his wife home. 

 Because in most ancient times there was a 

 ladder on which one could climb to the sky, 

 people could go up into the sky. So they came 

 down on the sky ladder. Just as they were 

 halfway down his wife said, "Formerly I 

 wove silk cloth. I have forgotten my silk 

 thread. Wait until I go back and get it, and 

 we will go." 



When she had said this she turned back. 

 As soon as she reached the sky she took the 

 diread and broke the sky thread. Then there 

 was a loud noise, and all the people on the 

 sky were frightened. The people on the sky 

 said, "Quickly draw up the ladder so that 

 common people on the world cannot come 

 up and disturb things." 



Quickly the people on the sky pulled up 

 the ladder and caused Je Dii to fall down, 

 and he was killed from the fall on the side 

 of the cliff. Then his wife was unable to 

 come down. 



Je Dii became an immortal on the side of 

 the cliff. His wife in heaven, as usual, helped 

 by weaving cloth. Because of this, when today 

 lightning flashes we know that the wife Bo 

 Dii is weaving in the sky. 



But the demon died. He has sons and 

 daughters who constantly do harm to people, 



sky and that by stretching his neck his head could 

 reach the water, 



^3 This was the dragon's food. 



