Case file · Folklore / legend

The Painted Skin

In Pu Songling's tale, a scholar of Taiyuan takes in a girl who turns out to be a fiend painting a human skin each day; a Taoist exposes it.

1680 CE · 37.87, 112.55 · status: legend

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  1. Wikipedia: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
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