From: "Charles Gavette" <chaosmosis-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Chinese ref.
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 18:04:49 PDT


Mona and Weasel's tryst was from "Chinese Demon Tales", Ping-Chiu Yen, 
Harvard Dissertations in Folklore and Oral Tradition, edited by Albert 
B. Lord, Garden Publishing, New York & London, 1990, pp. 45-46. Taken 
from Qing-ping shan-tang hua-ben, Yang Jia-lou, ed. Chinese Demon Tales 
is a thematic analysis, for instance on page 122-3 there is a table that 
describes the initial situation (in this collection of tales), the 
illness or problem, the journey, the means to initiate, the helpers, the 
otherworld, how the knowledge was acquired, the illness cured or problem 
solved, the return, and various endings: gets the girl, wealth, 
disciples there is an exorcism, flees society, dies, etc. Chapter 3, 
"Thematic Analysis: Lord's Theory in Application to Chinese Material" 
has parallel Chinese and English excerpts.......... Ch.4 is the main 
body of essay "A Search for Possible Meanings".

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