Note 230 — XXXIX. THE MAN WHO WAS CHANGED INTO A CROW.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
Alluding to a legend of a young man meeting two young ladies at Hankow, each of whom wore a girdle adorned with a pearl as big as a hen’s egg. The young man begged them to give him these girdles, and they did so; but the next moment they had vanished, and the girdles too. return to text