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Beware of Auntie Tiger
Hóo-Koo-Pô Taiwan, 7 minute read So, this story is one that I found months ago when I was looking at folk horror from Korea, Taiwan, China and the Philippines. Specifically, the story I chose is based on the Aunt Tiger or Auntie Tigress folklore and the most well-known version is by Taiwanese author, Wang Shilang. A long time ago, many people in Taiwan believed spirits and Gods roamed among us. They believed that animal spirits could transform themselves into human beings to trick other humans before devouring them. This sets the stage for our story of the Tiger Witch, the…
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Beauty and Pockface: Skin Deep
Cinderella is unconquerable when accounting for the number of retellings, adaptations, variants and popularity. Most of these adaptations focus on the Charles Perrault version of Cinderella (The Little Glass Slipper) when there are many other variants to choose from! One of these variants called “Yeh-Hsien” is the earliest recorded Cinderella tale, written in c.850 C.E by the poet Duan Chengshi. You can read that story here. Instead of Ye-Hsien, we are exploring the tale of Beauty and Pockface. “San-ko yuan-wang” or Three Wishes, was recorded in 1933 by Lin Lan. This Cinderella story has similar tropes and plot points to Yeh-Hsien,…
Tales from the Enchanted Forest 