Shea's Myth-Folk Blog

There once lived a headmaster who oversaw the White Lotus Academy, a school for young wizards. The headmaster was a powerful wizard, and many students hoped to learn from him. One day before going out, he told a group of students to watch over a small wooden box for him. "But you must not open it," the headmaster told them. They promised they would not before he left. Not long after, the students' curiosity got the best of them and they open the top of the box. Inside, they found a small toy car. To pass the time, the students played with the car but made sure it was back safely before the headmaster returned. When he got back to White Lotus Academy, the headmaster burst into the room yelling, "Why did you disobey me when I told you to not open the box?" The students denied that they had ever even touched the box. "Why then, did my car crash when I was returning?" The students knew they had been caught, but the headmaster decided to give...

"The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge" tells the tale of, surprise, a sorcerer who is a part of the White Lotus Lodge. He is known to deceive many people and has many students learning the ark arts from him. One day before going out, he put a bowl down and covered it with another bowl. He ordered his pupils to watch the bowl and not touch it. They of course open it to find water and a small boat, which they play with. The sorcerer returns angry that they disobeyed him, telling them his ship capsized at sea. Another night, he lit and candle and told his students to make sure it does not go out. They get tired and go to bed before he returns. The candle had gone out, so they relit it. The sorcerer returns mad and tells them he had to walk in the dark for fifteen miles. When one of the pupils insults the sorcerer, the sorcerer says nothing. Soon after, he sends the pupil to feed the pigs and turns the student into a pig when he enters the sty. The sorcerer sells him to a but...

In the story "The Lady of the Moon", a prince named Hou I was a great archer. There were ten suns in the sky, and they got so hot that people could not stand them. The emperor ordered Hou I to shoot them and he shot down nine of the suns. Hou I rode his harder to Kunlun Mountain and found the Queen-Mother of the Jasper Sea there. She gave him the herb of immorality, which he then hid in his room. His wife Tschang O ate some of the herb and floated up to the the clouds. She reached the moon and has lived in a castle there since as the Lady of the Moon. A emperor of the Tang dynasty was with two sorcerers and one made a bridge up to the moon. They climbed up and found the castle, on which was inscribed "The Spreading Halls of Crystal Cold." A cassia tree grew next to it. A man sat in the tree and cut off branches. One of the sorcerers decided this was the man in the moon and the tree must be cut down every thousand years so it does not cover the beauty of the moon....