The Spirits Of The Poyang Lake.

AN official, named Chai, was appointed to a post at Jaochou, and on his way thither crossed the Poyang lake. Happening to visit the shrine of the local spirits, he noticed a carved image of the patriotic Ting P‘ulang, and another of a namesake of his own, the latter occupying a very inferior position. “Come! come!” said Chai, “my patron saint shan’t be put in the background like that;” so he moved the image into a more honourable place, and then went back on board his boat again. Soon after, a great wind struck the vessel, and carried away the mast and sails; at which the sailors, in great alarm, set to work to howl and cry. However, in a few moments they saw a small skiff come cutting through the waves, and before long they were all safely on board. The man who rowed it was strangely like the image in the shrine, the position of which Chai had changed; but they were hardly out of danger when the squall had passed over, and skiff and man had both vanished.

鄱陽神

翟湛持，司理饒州，道經鄱陽湖。湖上有神祠，停蓋游瞻。內雕丁普郎死節臣像，翟姓一神，最居末坐。翟曰：「吾家宗人，何得在下！」遂於上易一座。既而登舟，大風斷帆，桅檣傾側，一家哀號。俄一小舟破浪而來；既近官舟，急挽翟登小舟，於是家人盡登。審視其人，與翟姓神無少異。無何，浪息，尋之已杳。