The Talking Silver Foxes (Chinese Bedtime Story)

The silver fox is known in Chinese as “Pi,” the same word also being used for “panthers,” since this legendary beast partakes of the nature of both animals. “The Old Mother” is the mother-goddess of the Taischan. But in other localities, she is chiefly honored as a child-giving goddess.

“A picture of the head priest of the Taoists”. Talismans painted by the head priest of the Taoists or the Taoist pope, the so-called “Master of the Heavens,” (Tian Schi) have special virtues against all kinds of sorcery and enchantment. The war god Guan Di also is appealed to as a savior in all sorts of emergencies.