Note 15 — INTRODUCTION.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
A fabulous community, placed by geographers to the west of the Dragon city—wherever that may be. So called because the heads of the men are in the habit of leaving their bodies, and flying down to marshy places to feed on worms and crabs. A red ring is seen the night before the flight encircling the neck of the man whose head is about to fly. At daylight the head returns. return to text