著者

名島 潤慈

出版者

熊本大学教育学部附属教育実践研究指導センター

雑誌

熊本大学教育実践研究

巻号頁・発行日

vol.15, pp.7-12, 1998-02-27

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In Japan it has been said that the animal which eats foul dreams or nightmares is mo 貘(Baku). However, as clearly noted in Hou Han shu 後漢書, the chinese dream-eating animal was Po-ch'i 伯奇(Hakki). Chinese mo had eaten iron, copper and snakes instead of dreams. Needless to say, in the transmission of any image of magical creature, deletions, accretions, and other alterations are inevitable. In the paper the author tries to conduct research on the apparent confusion of Po-ch'i and mo.