muke — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A kind of tree spirit.

   Gebrauch

   • Chinese

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   2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang, the muke/shanzao likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling shandu and muke both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ye, which nested in the high trees of the remote mountains of southern China.