u 



this is his union with the clouds" '. "The ts^ui ¥iu ('kingfisher- 

 kHu') has no wings and yet flies upwards to the sky" ^. "Place 

 the shape (i. e. an image of this dragon) in a tray, and the 

 kingfisher-^'m (shall) descend in a dark vapoury haze" ^ The 

 last sentence points to sympathetic magic which we shall mention 

 below (this Book, Ch. VI). 



The Shui ying fu^ ^ajs that the yellow dragon is th e. h pad nf 



thefoui_dra gons, tl;i,e- esseiice_ of divine manifesting powerf i_3jijd 



V that h e_ can becom e _ big and small , appear^ and disappear. in a 



mom ^nt;_ili£_&Z8^g-4fa)fflQ ffl is the v ita l spirit o f water. The azure, 



^blu a, yellQw, _black, white and red dragons as ^ood orl)ad _Qm£ns 



and givers_flf UgET^ oFl'aln rare meht iohed^ bgye. 



The legend about the ying-lung, the winged'' dragon, which 

 after having killed the rebel Ch'i Yiu (the first to raise rebellion 

 in B. C. 2637) could not return to the Southern peak where he 

 used to live, for which reason afterwards often drought prevailed, 

 will be given below (Ch. VI). 



A nine-headed, eighteen-tailed dragon is mentioned in a passage 

 of the Lang Men M°, referred to by De Groot'. There a Taoist 

 doctor is said to have recited this spell: *I came from the East 

 and found a pond on the road; in its water lived a venerable 

 dragon with nine heads and eighteen tails. I asked what it fed 

 on; it ate nothing but fever-demons". 



Further, we read about the "little stone-dragon", or "little 

 mountain-dragon", also called "spring- dragon" ®, the Japanese 



1 Ibidem, nr H (;^ ^), p. 28a: >^ M. Z X ^ ^ M B Z ^ 

 •jjgj ^ T. S. Sect. -^ ^^, Ch. 130, p. 4a, where this passage is quoted, gives E^ 

 instead of ■^ , which would mean ; "this is a flight of stairs formed by the clouds 

 and vapours". But in the Pao P'oh-tsze itself we read '^ . 



2 ^[.^,Ch.]II,nr38(-[|| |^),p. 29a: ^ C ^S ^ ffi ^ ^ . 



3 ^[. M' Ch. IV, nr 39 (^ ^), p. 3b: 1^ ^ ;jf$ ^ ^ ffij ip, ^ 



4 ^ ]§ 0, see above p. 64, note 2; quoted in the THen chung ki, ^ fh 



5 mmzw- 



6 J||J -^ gE , "a collection of tales and legends, in three chapters, ascribed tq one 



I Shi-chen, -^ jtt" 3^ , who lived under the Yuen dynasty (Lang huen is the Land 

 of Bliss)" (De Groot, Rel. Syst. Vol. IV, p. 105). 



7 Rel. Syst, Vol. VI, p. 1053. 



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