Origin: China
Qiongqi is one of the most evil of the four evil gods - the ancient four great beasts.
Sutra of Gods and Western Wilderness said: “The Northwest has a tiger-like, winged, flying, cannibalic animal named Qiongqi.”
There are books describing Qiongqi as big as a buffalo, looking like a tiger, wearing a porcupine-like coat and growing wings. The sound of a dog howling. It eats people. When eating human flesh, It will start eating from the head of a person. This is a great evil beast.
Qiongqi often appeared where there was a fight. If the people there fought for literature, it would eat it all. If the people there fight for loyalty, it will eat their noses. If the people there fought to do evil deeds, Qiongqi would donate beasts to those people, and at the same time encourage them to do more bad things.
However, Qiongqi is also mentioned to be a beneficial creature. In the "Book of Etiquette and Etiquette in the Later Han Dynasty, there are records of twelve beasts that can swallow evil spirits, demons, claiming to be twelve gods or twelve beasts. Qiongqi is one of them.
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