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Moxina,(Hàn-jī:魔神仔; Pe̍h-oē-jī：Mô͘-sîn-á; Tâi-lô：Môo-sîn-á).(or also romanized like Mosina), it's a Fujian and Taiwan's Folk type of ghost of monster that induces human beings to get lost in the mountains. The Folklore and anthropology researchers based on field surveys and interviews, generally believe that they are not clearly classified as ghosts and monsters in folk beliefs. They are generally considered to be a kind of strangeness in folk beliefs that are infested in wilderness, mountains, and water. Sometimes considered to be the ghost of a child, a woman or a climber, it may also be referred to as a compound belief in other transitions, so whether the Moxina should be determined by the circumstances of the event, Dominating a variety of folk beliefs, making changes and shifts to the folklore of the Moxina.

Characteristic
As Monster, Moxina like to appear in the mountains, by the stream, by the river bank. According to rumors, the Moxina is curious or naughty, will confuse human mind or mischief, tease others, and the object of teasing is usually the elderly or children. The law is to bring people to the mountains and lakes, making them lost. Generally speaking, the Moxina physical apperance is "small, short-moving, child-like", and there is also a regional rumored Moxina that is "a tall woman, with pale face and a bright red blush." Unlike ghosts who are afraid of daylight, they can act in broad daylight. They often play tricks on humans and bring humans to the barren hills to make fun of them, and the few casualties are often weak. But, the demon god rarely hurts humans, but likes to tease humans; it is not good at caring himself, and is afraid of sound, and there is no loud noise. In Fujian and Taiwan, etc, to beat the alarms and set off firecrackers, and the survivors who have survived are often found in a mental state. Afterwards, the victim claimed to have eaten "a delicacies" given by the Moxina, but in fact it is eated cow dung, cockroaches, branches and earth and plants. In some places of Taiwan, the legend of the Moxina, while mixed with other ghosts or monsters beliefs, such as a headless businessman who was hunted by the aborigines, or a woman who died in a valley. This generation often hurts in the mountains. To catch the alternation, but this is not the mainstream of Taiwanese folk beliefs.

Although the stories of Moxina incidents are similar, the description of the appearance characteristics is often divided by region and belief. It is difficult to clarify its original image even after the concept of this ghosts are mixed: Or the rumor of the demon god is actually composed of a composite of similar images inherent in multiculturalism, not a single fixed object.

Urban Legend
Basically, the rumors of the Moxina are spread all over Taiwan: from the high and low altitude mountains (such as the Qilai Mountain, Meilun Mountain, and Yangming Mountain, there are legends of the Moxina.) to the remote deep forest wilderness, even to the suburbs of the early development settlement area. There are similar rumor events happening. On the northern slopes of Keelung in Taiwan hillside where the Hakka people in Taozhu Miao three counties live, there is also a specter abducting children and even taking the record of adults. Scholars have used Pingxi and Miaoli townships as typical areas of field investigations. Moxinas can be seen at any time, not like ghosts. The ghosts in folk beliefs often appear after sunset.

Cultural Perspective

 * There are legends of Black dwarfs which are circulated among the indigenous people of Taiwan,but are traditionally different from the Moxina. Such the (Sasuzu) legend of the Bunun people.


 * Of the Japanese legends, the Yamabiko.

Contemporary legends

 * Yushan Xiaofei Xia: In Yushan, it is said that there are three men wearing a hat and wearing a yellow raincoat, and the mountaineers are lured to the cliff. Folklore researchers believe that such descriptions have the meaning of alternation, and there is a gap between the image of the traditional folk Moxina.


 * The Little Girl in Red: The most popular Taiwan's urban legend. A family went to Dakeng secenic Area in Beitun District in Taichung city. The capturate footage showed a little girl dressed all in red following the team with a gloomy expresion and a strange posture ((it was said that there was no such child in the team). The man that reclaim the sucess in the video for the Taiwanese Television Channel died mysteriously after of few days.

Medical Explications
Symptoms such as panic disorder, delirium or mountain sickness caused by uneasiness and environmental factors caused by loss.

In addition, due to diabetes or hunger caused by abnormal blood sugar, dehydration caused electrolyte disorder to form cognitive impairment, the loss of people relying on beliefs and past life experience to create hallucinations, is also a possible cause of such rumors.

Popular Culture

 * (The Tag Along) and (The Tag Along 2)：Taiwanese Horror movie Directed by Cheng Wei Hao. Most popular film about Moxina, in this case is based in Little Girl in Red Legend.
 * (The Tag Along: The Devil Fish)：Taiwanese Horror movie, spinoff of The Tag Along, based in the Human face fish legend. In this movie, a fish is posseed by a Demon ¨Moxina¨.