Wangliang

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In Chinese folklore, a wangliang (Chinese: 魍魎 or 罔兩) is a type of malevolent spirit.^[a] Interpretations include a wilderness spirit, like the kui, a water spirit like the Chinese dragon, a fever demon like the yu (魊; "a poisonous three-legged turtle"), a graveyard ghost also called wangxiang (罔象) or fangliang (方良), and a man-eating "demon that resembles a 3-year-old brown child with red eyes, long ears, and beautiful hair."
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