Huahuai

The Bellicose Beast

Hibernating human-faced beast whose wood-chopping cry foretold unrest in the county.

Huahuai of Yaoguang Mountain has a human face and a pig’s bristles, lives in caves and sleeps through winter, and cries like a woodsman’s axe. Where it appears, the county suffers great unrest — a hibernating omen of rebellion.