The Girl Seeks the Male

The Girl Seeks the Male The Primal Deity Guards the Way The story tells how Pig leapt down the mountainside and found a narrow path. After following it for nearly two miles he came across two she-monsters drawing water from a well. How did he know that they both were monsters? Each of them had on her head an extremely unfashionable hair-style held up by bamboo slivers that stood one foot two or three inches high. "Evil monsters," Pig called, going up to them. The two of them looked at each other and said, "What an outrageous monk. We don't know him and we've never had words with him. So why did he call us evil monsters?" In their fury the monsters raised the pole with which they were going to carry the water and struck at Pig's head. After a few blows that he could not ward off as he was unarmed, the idiot rushed back up the mountain with his head covered by both hands shouting, "Brother! Go back! The monsters are vicious." "What's so vicious about them?" Monkey asked. "There were two evil spirits drawing water from the well in the hollow," said Pig, "and they hit......