Case file · Haunting
Tomb of the Seven Beauties
On a Penghu island, seven women are said to have thrown themselves into a well rather than be taken by sea raiders; a tree that grew from the well is said to embody them.
1894 CE · 23.20, 119.44 · status: legend
The account
The Penghu gazetteer of 1894 is the earliest record. The island was renamed Qimei ('Seven Beauties') in 1949, and post-war retellings set the event under the Ming and named the raiders as Japanese pirates.