Chinese spirit tales and folk sayings about cats, rats, and other critters translated and retold.
Animal Wonder Tales
Supernatural stories of transforming tigers, helpful rats, and more!
- Tiger Guardians of the Ginkgo Forest
- The Stripe Siblings
- Cat Spirits of Jinhua
- Son of Cheng Chunqu – a tale of human-feline reincarnation
- The Monk’s Debt: a medieval cat reincarnation tale
- Zhou Hai’s Debt: a human-to-cat reincarnation tale
- The Dog and the Dao
- The Life Extender: A Supernatural Rat Tale of Devotion
- The Messenger of the Eastern Warehouse: A rat tale from the 18th c.
- The Grateful Rat


Myths of the Moon
Think you know the stories of Chang E and Moon Rabbit? Not many people know the unromanticized ancient versions of the myths, warts and all. 😉
Btw Jade Rabbit can’t be a rabbit because rabbits are not indigenous to China. Hare or rabbit, this lagomorph appears in more than one queer tale: