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Bifrost: Anyone Own or Have Played this old UK Fantasy RPG?
One of the topics discussed during breaks in my Sunday game was WOTC's 5e announcement. Most conversation revolved around what people liked about the various editions of D&D and D&D-like games that they would like to see in 5e. When we were talking about old D&D-like games, one of my players mentioned Bifrost. I was shocked as most people have never heard of it. Heck, most of what I know about it comes from a review of the first book in White Dwarf #7. I believe read a review of one of the later volumes as well, but I could not find that review in White Dwarf issues this morning -- perhaps I missed it or the review was in a UK D&D fanzine or I simply imagined the review.
Bifrost is the game I always wanted to find in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Unfortunately, I never saw a copy of any of its four volumes. More surprisingly, I have never found anyone who had seen a copy of played in a Bifrost game. If any copies made it to the US, they must have been very few and very far between. If you check Noble Knight games and RPG.net you can find ictures of the covers and a line or two of description, but not much else.
As far as I can tell, the game never made much of an impression on anyone. Well, except for me, that review in White Dwarf #7 obviously made an impression on me. Part of the reason it went nowhere was probably the way it was published, four volumes (originally planned to only be three) published once a year and from what little I've been able to find out, the weird organization meant that you really needed all four books to play. For example, here's what was in the first volume according to the White Dwarf review: "....Setting Up the game, Game content and Sequence of Action, Choice of characters, individual abilities, Alignment, Gods, and the Hand of Fate, Social position, Prices and equipment, Map movement and symbols, Fatigue, Diseases and illness, Incident locations, Morale and reactions, Weather, Progression, and advancement." Things like combat, magic, monsters, treasure, etc. were left for later books. The reviewer (Don Turnbull) did say that there was quite a bit of material that could be incorporated into a D&D game either because it was material not really covered by D&D or did things somewhat better than D&D did, for example alignment and gods.
I'd love to hear from anyone who has read Bifrost -- or better yet played Bifrost. While I've given up on ever finding a copy (I could not afford it if I could), but I would still like to find out more about it. I'm sure that it was just another early example of what came to be called a "fantasy heartbreaker" but even after all these years I remember that review of the first volume of Bifrost in White Dwarf #7 and wonder what the game was really like. Any readers who played the Bifrost or know someone who did?
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January 16, 2012 at 12:56 PM
"I'm sure that it was just another early example of what came to be called a "fantasy heartbreaker"
I can assure this is not the case.
Bifrost is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.
It took me a lot of time and it was a real pain in the neck but after some years i was able to get copies of the first and the third volume, i read them some time ago and i was struck, particularly by the Magic system. Bifrost is beautiful,but it is really not for everyone. If you have a look at "Heroic worlds" it says that it is somewhat complicated and that may be true.
Bifrost was better than D&D, and in my humble opinion is one of those gems which absolutely must be rediscovered again.Unfortunately, as i said, i only read Bifrost but i never managed to play it, but i will surely try in the future.
You are right, the only existing review is the one in WD, the other one you saw maybe was contained in a fanzine, because it was never reviewed in Dragon nor in Space gamer, only in WD.
I am fond of obscure fantasy rpg's, on my blog i already wrote about Castle Perilous, Phantasy Conclave, Melanda, Sword's path:glory, and you can be sure i'll devote time and energy to ensure the proliferation of Bifrost.Do expect some posts in the future about it.
Since i know that it is extremely difficult to obtain it, i was thinking of using my blog to make it available in the future to everyone..i'll see what i can do.
January 17, 2012 at 2:14 PM
@Catacomb Librarian: You are the first person I've ever found who actually owned any part of Bifrost. I will be very interested in reading your posts on it. For others interested, Catacomb Librarian's blog can be found here: Mesmerized by sirens. It talks about a lot of older RPGs that most people have forgotten or, more likely, never heard of.
I'd be particularly interested in hearing about the magic system, but also why you think the game is better than D&D in general.
January 17, 2012 at 2:18 PM
I just noticed that Catacomb Librarian posted scans of the White Dwarf review I mentioned above yesterday in this post: The enthralling mystery of Bifrost. If you'd like to read the review that got me interested in Bifrost 30+ years ago, hop on over there.
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January 17, 2012 at 3:14 PM
Thanks Randall, i'll write about Bifrost in the future on my blog,as i said before. I promise, don't worry :)
I think that many games were better than D&D..i am generally against the cult of D&D and the fixation on it.
bye for now
January 19, 2012 at 10:50 PM
I used to own a copy of Bifrost volume 1, which I picked up while being a tourist in London many years ago. Unfortunately volume 1 was not enough to play the game.
January 25, 2012 at 12:04 PM
A received an email from a gentleman in the UK who believes he still has all four volumes of Bifrost in a box in his closet. I'm trying to persuade him to write a bit about each volume and the game as a whole as a guest post here. Even a list of what each volume covers would be more than I know.
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January 29, 2012 at 7:43 AM
that's excellent news. Please let me know of any further information you are able to collect from this guy.
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Body scrubs are a precarious cycle of joyful anticipation, fleeting gratification, frustrating confusion, and predictable disappointment. I'm serious. Hear me out.
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OK, time out. Let me make something perfectly clear: urea is NOT urine. Is it found in urine? Absolutely. But so is potassium and water, so chill out, dudes. Urea on its own is a hydrating and lightly exfoliating compound.
Anyway, Derma-Lac Lotion is actually a clear, lightweight gel, so it's a great option for people who don't really dig creamy textures. (Are there people like that?) It's perfect for rough areas, like elbows and knees and those weird toe knuckle things.
Skinfo would like you to know that this lotion is "cosmetically elegant," but I think the fact that there's 15% glycolic acid in it is way more impressive.
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Oh, and it has urea, too. Have you started warming up to urea yet?
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One of the main differences: in addition to a smaller amount of lactic acid, it contains salicylic acid, a beta-hydroxy acid. You're probably familiar with it from all the times it helped slough away zits on your pretty face. There's just enough of it to help resurface your skin without getting it all angry.
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Knead, mother&^%$. You're going down.
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I seek an idea at the bottom of the bread bowl.
It's sticky, this dough. Feels wet, not yet right. More flour, more muscle, gears turn as I go.
Soon, it's smooth.
I stretch it like taffy, examine its pores. You're pretty, I tell it, then fear I'm insane.
I give it a rest and head out the door.
It bubbled! It toiled! All risen and plump!
I'm proud, strangely so, though my efforts were minor.
I punch down the dough.
A whistle escapes.
I upend the bowl and scrape out its contents.
Shape a soft loaf and set it to proof.
I look at the bowl now, hard and stern.
It's empty again.
There's nothing inside.
I sought an idea at the bottom of the bread bowl.
And came up short.
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Young ploughing champions from South Tipperary
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South Tipperary was well represented at the recent National Ploughing Championships - not only in the crowds that flocked to Athy but among the prize winners.
Two of the younger competitors really made their mark on the competition field and took home the overall Under 21 prize and Under 28 prize.
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This year they had almost a year to prepare for the Ploughing Championships once they had qualified and they are hoping for the same this year.
John explains that from November they might take part in matches in Urlingford, Mooncoin or Freshford as practice. In April they will take a break for the summer months but will get back to the field in late August, as the Ploughing Championships approach.
This year they travelled to Mogelly, in County Cork, as well as Lismore and Knockanore in Waterford, in the weeks before going to Athy.
Other preparations they might undertake include modifications to their machinery and checking out new inventions in the skill.
Competitions starts in the morning once they reach the All Ireland match. Ploughing begins at 9.30am on match day, for 30 minutes. Then the judges inspect the work for about 40 minutes before the competitors start up again for nearly four hours of work, including closing up the earlier open run.
Results are called on the same evening, at about 6pm, from the main stand and on public address across the whole Ploughing gathering.
"You'd know if you did well, it's usually fairly close and you're left thinking 'I might not have got it'," John says of that waiting time.
His win this year was all the more sweet as he did better than his second place last year, and third place the year before.
Having won his grade he now moves up to the senior grade.
"I've been ploughing in the All Ireland since I was old enough for a tractor licence, at 16," John says. He began even earlier in the local competitions, when he was 12 or 13, in the Under 21 class, as it is the youngest class. He is now 24. "You usually don't start on your own, your father starts you and my father started me. He ploughs in the All Ireland too in the two-furrow mounted vintage class."
People might find it surprising to hear John has not gone in to farming as a career. The youngest in his family John is the only one who has followed his father into the competition, but it's just a hobby for him. His brother is farming but John works in Cork in a pharmaceutical company. He goes home to the farm at weekends to practice.
This year's Ploughing Championship was another huge success for the National Ploughing Association, with attendance up 10,000 to 190,000 over the three days.
Anna May McHugh, Managing Director of the National Ploughing Association said "we are truly delighted with this year's event, particularly with the fantastic number of visitors we had on the 80th anniversary of the National Ploughing Association, which all started back in 1931 on this very site. I would like to sincerely thank all involved for their help, support and cooperation for making this year's event such a special one ".
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The end of an era - 4chan founder Moot signs off one last time by Capper General
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- Anonymous23 January 2015 at 21:47
- Anonymous23 January 2015 at 21:50
- Anonymous23 January 2015 at 21:54
- Anonymous23 January 2015 at 23:05
rip in peace moot. you may of been a huge faggot, but you were our huge faggot.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous23 January 2015 at 23:19
Well, with him being mostly absent since 2012 I don't exactly see what this changes.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous24 January 2015 at 00:22
All his faggotry aside, Moot created something truly great and put up with a lot of shit through the years because of it, and he has his place in internet history. Even if he is every bit the SJW cunt that everyone has taken to calling him lately, for me personally, he's still earned my sincere thanks and I still wish nothing but the best for him.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Tuffy McFuckleby25 January 2015 at 18:13
Yeah, thanks so much for sharing the picture of a stretched anus and old people blowing each other. *flushes* Goodbye 4chan.Delete
- Anonymous24 January 2015 at 01:58
How dare he desecrate Cowboy Bebop like thatReplyDelete
Also, what the fuck is 4chan?Replies
- Anonymous24 January 2015 at 11:39
RULES 1 AND 2, FAGGOT!Delete
- Anonymous25 January 2015 at 18:05
In death, all members of anonymous 4chan has a name, his name is faggot mootReplyDelete


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Karen Kipphoff are dreptate in tot ce spune si o clarviziune asupra lucrurilor probabil tocmai din cauza (semi) independentei sale fata de spatiul romanesc. Sigur ca pentru o asemenea dezbatere e nevoie ca toate partile sa fie implicate. Eu cred insa ca daca studentii chiar isi doresc sa existe o dezbatere, daca intradevar au ceva de spus atunci e imposibil sa nu se intample ceva. Parerea mea e ca vina cea mai mare o au studentii care se lamenteaza in starea asta fara a incerca sa schimbe ceva... Pana la a provoca o dezbatere despre Universitatile de arta poate ar fi bine sa se regleze problemele tehnice de pe lista Nettime pentru ca oricine sa se poata implica in discutii. V. Nanca vladimir bulat <vbulat {AT} k.ro> wrote: please post to nettime-ro on art academy discussion, thanks, karen having followed the discussions and polemics of the nettime-list, I would like to make a couple of points. My remarks are not intended to patronize. If the discussion, however, is really about the art academy (let's say in Bucharest) and not just to get rid of frustrations while building up new anger it needs to be more to the facts. Organizational structure of the Academy needs discussion of the following: are there paid (or even unpaid) student representatives (and in fact representatives from all groups of those working at the Academy) in the commitees of accession to studies, employment, study structure reform groups, board meetings, library and equipment commitees, etc. Are the technical staff, maintenance, administration more influential than the teachers or students? If so, who not aks for better student representation at all levels. Relevant Courses: Do you get enough of them? Do you have the possibility to do project work, study trips, individual talks? The flow of information: Do you have an open forum where evreybody can speak up and debate both art and everyday problems? Do you feel you all get the same information or is it mostly about being in the right place, with the right person at the right time? Than you should request more accountability and openness. The equipment: easy access and feasible rules for everybody to use equipment and to receive introductory knowledge on how to use it? Evaluation: are only the students evaluated or are there evaluation routines for teachers and administration as well? If not, try to get them established. Tuition: Do you get your moeny's worth out of the education and if not, why don't you ask for more? Budget: Do you know the schools-, your faculties budget? If not, try to get the numbers oin the open to find out where the money goes. Teachers: Are there openings for younger artists, possibly even female, to teach. are there part-time, limited term appointments? Please also consider this: when artists make the effort to teach at an art school in Romania (where they earn what?, EUR 120 - 200 ?) are they obliged to personally guarantee the success of their students in the art world? Nobody can do that, it is a risky choice in any country to study art. There are different reasons for teaching at an art school: the interest in the students and the arts, we hope, is the first. Power, status, security but certainly none of them (in Romania) is connected to really being able to pay your bills. Another point, in order to be able to teach relevant contemporary matters, it is essential that teachers at Art Schools get the opportunity to update their knowledge, to be able to travel, to further educate themselves and to conduct their "research" and with research I am now not thinking of the obligatory PhD, but rather of the artistic kind. How is the system providing for this aspect? And lastly, it is not the worst strategy for an artist to leave the schoool, get self-organized and criticize the "behated" system, this has in many cases proved to be very successfull - not only in terms of the educational but the whole institutional critique scene has not only succeeded in reforming the system, but possibly been most clever when it comes to having promoted their own interests. It is only through people like Matej Bejenaru, Florin Grigoras, Iosif Kiraly, Roxana Trestoreanu, Eugen Gustea, our contacts in the Romanian Art Education that we have actually managed to exchange ideas, students and teachers/artists in the past couple of years. BOTTOM LINE: GET ORGANIZED, REPRESENT YOUR INTERESTS AND MAKE THE SCHOOL LISTEN TO IT. 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PARIS (AP) — Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is zeroing in on two of her top priorities, security and immigration, in a visit to southeastern France.
Le Pen paid homage to the 86 victims of an attack last year in Nice, with a visit Monday to the city's famed seaside promenade where revelers were mowed down by a truck while celebrating Bastille Day.
Le Pen was then heading to the border post in Menton, where migrants often try to enter France from Italy.
She wants France to better control its borders to fight illegal arrivals, quitting the border-free Schengen zone as well as the European Union.
Polls suggest Le Pen will place among the top two in France's April 23 first-round election, but will struggle to win the May 7 runoff.


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After arming certain financial advisors with new designations aimed at winning more 401(k) consulting business this year, Bank of America Merrill Lynch says that that bet is paying off.
The firm has reached $3 billion in new assets from those efforts this year, and plans to bring that total to $3.5 billion by the middle of 2013. At the same time, 30 financial advisors have successfully completed the new Defined Contribution Investment Consulting designation, with another 20 expected to bring the total to 50 in the next few months.
The initiative is part of Bank of America Merrill Lynchs goal to round out its 401(k) business that already includes record keeping services. The added plan consulting business includes fiduciary level services, employee education services, investment menu plan design consulting and periodic reviews fund screening. Those features are provided on a fee for service basis.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has won those $3 billion in new assets by targeting plans that are $25 million and more, while also including that do not necessarily have their record keeping through the firm. Since going live with the efforts in July, the firm has attracted plans with $100 million, $200 million and $400 million in assets, according to Kevin Crain, head of institutional retirement and benefit services at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Its actually gone beyond my aspirations in the first few months, Crain said of the new assets the firm has won, which is now starting to include more middle market space plans with $50 million, $75 million or $100 million.
Theres a great appetite from the plan sponsor for these types of services and they will pay for the value thats given, Crain said of the benefits the services provide including fiduciary protection.
John Cate is one Merrill Lynch advisor who says his institutional-focused practice has benefited from the new efforts. Cates Indianapolis-based team was the first to go through the designation process.
And while he says the initial interview process to take part in the designation program was exhaustive, with interviews with more than 20 people from the home office, the program has lived up to its promise.
That comes as Cates team has sealed eight new client relationships in the past two months. Cate describes those clients as large household name companies with 4,000 to 6,000 employees. Seven of those clients have more than $100 million in assets, and three of them have more than $350 million in assets.
The wins that were getting in the marketplace and traction and momentum that we have, Ive never seen the activity like we have right now, Cate said.
Cate credits the designation and resources behind the team at the firm for helping to convince clients to sign on with them. So far, he says, the program has lived up to the promises that helped lure his team to Merrill Lynch from Morgan Stanley in June 2011.
Its better than what we ever anticipated, and our clients have had a great experience, Cate said.
Cates team is one example of a more experienced team that has had early wins with prospective institutional clients through the program. And Crain says he expects that to see other financial advisors who have gone through the designation process start to see the same success in coming months.
The growth has far exceeded our initial expectations, Crain said. When I look at the pipelines, we had more wins come in even this week. Its been a nice early stage success.
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|(Anatomy of a Testicle - The Vas Deferens is where the RISUG injection is made)
What is RISUG? Where the current vasectomy involves cutting the vas deferens (the tiny tubes that carry sperm made in the testicles to the penis, where they are mixed with nutritive prostate fluids to form semen), Guha's RISUG technique pulls out a section of the vas deferens and injects a nontoxic polymer, which coats the interior of the tube and, amazingly, chemically incapacitate the sperm that flow past, making them incapable of fertilizing an egg.
How do I get a RISUG vasectomy? In India, where RISUG was invented, it's on a fast track to wide availablility. There's no reason you can't go to India and get one just like you can go to any other country and have a medical procedure.
Because RISUG was invented out of the mainstream worldwide pharma/medical device development system, there are obstacles to RISUG's availability in the rest of the world due to a combination of skepticism and, frankly, the inability of the big, important world to deal with something that came out of, to their way of looking at it, nowhere. Wired Magazine explains:
As a contraceptive, RISUG faces a far more difficult road to approval and commercial acceptance than, say, a new antidepressant medication. While an antidepressant would be considered a success if it worked in 75 percent of patients, a contraceptive like RISUG will be compared to a conventional vasectomy, which works more than 99 percent of the time. Furthermore, it has to be free from the serious side effects that were common with early experimental hormone-based male contraceptives. And it cannot cause birth defects down the line—ever. "Nobody wants another thalidomide," says Ron Weiss, the Canadian vasectomy doctor.Fortunately, that's not the end of the story. A woman activist in the US, fed up with the lack of options for birth control from the male side, has taken up RISUG's cause and in 2010 the Gates Foundation awarded Guha $100,000 - and some much needed recognition - to bring cheap, nontoxic, one-time, 100% effective male birth control to a very needy world.
In human tests, RISUG performed extremely well. In the first clinical trial of 17 men, published in 1993, all the subjects who received above a certain dosage became azoospermic—that is, they produced no viable sperm. By 2000, it was in Phase III clinical trials in India, the final stage before approval. The compound was injected into 139 men, and the early results looked promising. In May 2002, it was announced that RISUG was on track for approval in India and would be rolled out on a limited basis within six months.
At around the same time, a World Health Organization team came to visit Guha's lab in Delhi and examine his data. This itself was a triumph: It meant RISUG was finally on the international radar. Weiss, a long-time advocate of the process, was with the group and performed the operation. But the five-person team came away skeptical.
In its report, the WHO team agreed that the concept of RISUG was intriguing. But they found fault with the homegrown production methods: Guha and his staff made the concoction themselves in his lab, and the WHO delegation found his facilities wanting by modern pharmaceutical manufacturing standards. Furthermore, they found that Guha's studies did not meet "international regulatory requirements" for new drug approval—certain data was missing. The final recommendation: WHO should pass on RISUG."
MORE: Read all about Guha, see a video of the RISUG procedure, and learn more about the current efforts to bring RISUG to market outside of India at Wired Magazine.


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Children who are hesitant to read aloud in front of others find reading to dogs presents an opportunity to read aloud in a nonjudgemental setting. This kind of encouragement is proving to be beneficial to young readers nationwide.
Library Journal recently reported that therapy dogs' presence is growing in libraries across the country. The article cites a Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University study that found that second-grade students with a range of reading aptitudes and attitudes toward reading experienced a gain in their reading ability and improvement in their attitudes toward reading after reading to therapy dogs. In the same study, those who read to people experienced a decrease on both measures.
Other studies found children's reading skills increased as much as two grade levels after reading to dogs over a several week period.
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Wild animals of Beijing
Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Monday, June 25, 2007 at 5:47 PM
Some recent encounters with real wildlife in and around Beijing:
1. Hog Badger
Hog badger in Thailand
Yesterday, on a path in a forest in the mountains north of Miyun during a hail storm, your correspondent encountered a beast that ran like a dog but had a snout like a pig. The beast and I both stopped, shocked, then it ran off into the undergrowth.
It seems that the beast was a hog badger. According to Internet sources (Badgerinfo and Badger Pages), the species is found throughout much of south east Asia and China. Not much is known about the hog badger, but its survival is threatened by deforestation and hunting.
From Steve Jackson's Badger Pages (also source of image reproduced here):
2. Huang Shulang
This animal lives in hutongs in central Beijing, and has been spotted several times in the last few months by your correspondent in Dongcheng District. In Chinese it's called huang shu lang (黄鼠狼) colloquially, or huang you (黄鼬). It seems to be the Yellow Weasel (Mustela sibirica).
Image from Baidu Baike
Baidu's Baike encyclopedia says that the weasel does not have a good reputation because of a proverb about weasels who 'steal chickens under the guise of wishing a family happy new year'. However, according to a few Dongcheng residents, it is lucky to see a weasel.
If any Danwei readers have more information about hog badgers or about folk customs associated with the huang shulang please leave them in the comments or email jeremy at danwei.org.
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yes, I have spotted the "huangshulang" in our apartment garden in China World while walking the dog at night. Suspect that it's a pine marten since it's quite big.
I've seen several time one huang shulang in my courtyard, near Guozijian, every time at night.
I love huangshulang - it always makes me happy to see one. There's a bunch of them where I live in the northwest of Beijing, though they generally try to stay out of the way. I've never seen a picture of one that remotely does them justice - they're beautiful animals with a tiny cat-like face and uncurled squirrel-like tail.
All the local cats find them fascinating and trot after them to investigate, while the huangshulang patters off, wanting to avoid trouble. I've been told that my cats have spent hours, dead still, crouched either side of a huangshulang hole - waiting and waiting for the strange creature that surely must come out eventually.
Very occasionally, I'll hear a blood curdling scream and assume that a cat, hopefully not my own, his misguidedly corned a huangshulang and is being warned in no uncertain terms that the consequences of an attack could be very, very serious. Or maybe I'm wrong and it's two huangshulang establishing which of them is the boss.
They're pretty good climbers - they can get up a tree in no time at all.
I wish I could add to the folk sayings about huangshulang, but I can't. People I asked said exactly the same about chickens and new year. One addition to the wild animals, though - we've got hedgehogs too, but you don't see them very often.
My wife says when her father was young he used to often catch those hog badgers and eat them. She hears they are very good to eat.
That thing is scarier than an '08 Fuwa. Thankfully it didn't make the Zodiac.
@ cat: I love your rendering huangluang life. Can you send me daily emails about hedgehogs and yellow weasels? Or any other animals that habitate in Beijing?
I believe seeing any animal in a city is a good luck omen. In Texas, we used to see coyotes. People don't like them, but they are very cool.
I think that this post brings up the interesting issue of how well fauna is documented in China. I get the impression that the average Chinese city dweller doesn't know much about Chinese fauna. Compare this to Australia, where we are brought up on posters and charts of endangered animals, snakes and spiders. Does anybody know what China's most poisonous snake is? It's facts like these that don't seem to be part of popular culture and are not very well documented.
Another Huan Shulang sighting: China Central Place (Huamao) in Chaoyang. There's a little family of them that lives in the hedges there.
I saw a weasel on the pitch at Red Ball, ran around the edge and then scooted towards the Bus Bar
About two weeks ago the Jinan Evening Post ran a short story with a photo of a huangshulang that stopped traffic in Jinan. The article postulated that the drivers' motivation to avoid hitting the huangshulang was the huangshulang's tendency to catch and eat other less desirable rodents, like mice and rats.
Great. This blog answers a huge question that has stuck in the back of my mind for quite some time. I saw a dead huang shulang while riding my bike on the third ring road near Guomao a few months ago and mistook it for a ferret. As an English country yokel who kept ferrets as a teenager, this it was very surreal sight. How on earth did a ferret find its way to the centre of the hustling, bustling modern metropolis that is Beijing? Now I know it wasn't a ferret. Thank you Danwei for clearing this up for me.
It's widely believed in village area that some weasels have the power to obsess people. I initially didn't buy this kind of story, but eventually believed it after some of my close relatives shared their experiences.
Hog badger is kinda of cute.
As for Huang Shu Lang, in the 60's, in Beijing, my parent's families they all had chickens, and you are suppose to lock up the coup real tight so Huang Shu Lang won't eat your chickens.
There are more mammals around Beijing than you may suspect. There are even said to be leopards (can provide background on this if anyone is interested).
Here is something I wrote based on a Chinese magazine article on hog badgers, etc. I also have info on cats/canids.
A 1983-85 survey of mammals of the Beijing-Tianjin area found 47 species, of which badger M. meles and hog badger Arctonyx collaris were most numerous, of small carnivores Siberian weasel Mustela sibirica most widespread. A 1993 popular science book on protected spp of Beijing added jackal and yellow throated marten Martes flavigula to the list. We began our own survey of predators in 1998, recorded 10 spp including racoon dog. We discovered that a 1956 Peking University study recorded "a certain number" of wolves which attacked livestock and humans. Records from the 80s of furs bought [by the state] showed 74 wolf skins in period 1974-79 in Miyun county and 195 in Changping [both in northern outer suburbs] in 1979-81, but very few after this. A national survey 1995-2000 found signs of wolves in Yanqing, Huairou and Pinggu counties but no live specimens. We had reports from interviews of wolves from Mutianyu (Great Wall site) in Huairou county and Songshan in Yanqing county but no proof of wolves at a fur buying post at Miyun. One day we found whitish grey, coarse droppings at Yunmengshan on border of Miyun and Huairou counties, which we at first thought was from a wolf because of the well known rhyme "they eat red meat and leave white sh1t" but on analysis found they consisted of fish scales and bones, so they probably weren't from wolves. But we found what was clearly a canid footprint in the Sanyu scenic area together with carnivore droppings, this area is rarely visited and there were ugulate prints around, so we believe there are wolves in this area.
Bao Weidong, Li Xiaojing, Shi Yang, Complex [facts concerning] predatory animals of the Beijing area, Da Ziran [China Nature], 2005, issue 6, 17-19 [in Chinese]
See also eg link
You can't just leave us dangling there, Zheng - what were your relatives' experiences. I can't be the only one who wants to know.
And Michael - that was a pretty extensive list of information. Thanks a lot for that, but could you expand on the leopards?
My favorite Danwei post-and-comments of all time! I've seen racoons in the southwest of town, on Mishi Hutong, near Kang Youwei's guju. According to "The Adventures of Wu," in old Beijing the belief held that stretching a dried raccoon skin over a stool, then sitting on it, relieved piles. That tradition has died. Raccoons are primed for a comeback.
i saw one of these in Beijing once...
Lets hear about the leopards of Beijing!
Michael, do tell us!
Fantastic - we also have huangshulang in Shanghai! My husband was walking home last night after a rainstorm and saw one emerge from the gardens of our complex, a rare and beautiful sight in the city. We tried to identify it and at first wrongly thought it was a mongoose.
Anyone know what they eat, or are they omnivores?
I wish I could bring my guns from America to China... I'd have mucho fun shooting these things...
Huangshulang eat mostly small things like insects and mice, but they also eat snakes. Birds as big as a chicken aren't usually on the menu except when food starts to get scarce. That's probably why they've got the reputation for killing chickens around Chinese New Year - that's about the end of winter when their normal supplies of food are likely to be running out.
On the leopard thing, I finally got around to doing a very quick search and found that Xinhua had reported it back in 2001: link
There's a typo in that report - the "tochards" at Huairou reservoir should be pochards. I was also puzzled by the reference to gorals as part of the Beijing leopards' diet, since Wikipedia says that Gorals are an ethnic minority in the south of Poland and north of Slovakia: link
How on earth did these Poles and Slovaks become part of Beijing's woodland wildlife? And are the Polish and Slovakian embassies doing anything to stop their citizens being eaten leopards? Fortunately it turns out that the article is actually referring to a different kind of goral - a wild goat-like creature: link
I live in Shanghai, inner ring, pretty dense population. This morning I caught a glimpse of what I thought was a large squirrel about to cross a path in my complex before turning tail back into the bushes. I waited nearby for about a minute and sure enough the creature appeared again and turns out to be a weasel (exactly that as shown above). Bad luck/good luck - I choose good luck, because how lucky is it to see a wild animal these days, especially something so interesting and in such a populated area?
I've seen Huangshulang without number in Beijing, usually but not always in hutongs late at night. I have also been very surprised to find that my Chinese friends dismiss my sightings outright, saying I saw a cat or a rat. Like the chap above, I was a also a ferret man when a lad, (or a ferret lad...) and I can spot a mustelid tow fields away just by the way it moves.
To my understanding, there are four animals that have some kind of supernatural significance in Chinese culture. These are the fox, the snake, the porcupine (or hedgehog?) and the Chinese Yellow Weasel (Huangshulang).
The superstition I am aware about regarding the Huangshulang is that though it is neither unlucky nor lucky to see one, it is extremely unlucky to disturb the places where they live, no matter if it is yoru woodpile, your outhouse or under yoru bed. You should let them get on with rraising their family and not disturb them at any price.
To my mind, I think it is lucky to see one. Being tuned in to these kinds of things, I often see them when others don't. Sometimes I even feel that when a Huangshulang moves quickly enough, it becomes kind of transparent...
For anyone that sees one, you may interested to know that like many members of the weasel family, they are very curious, and if you see one disappear into a wall or hedge, if you stand still for a few minutes, you stand a good chance of him poking his head out again to see what is going on.
I live in a hutong off dongsi. My small yard is a veritable zoo- lovely cats and huangshulang, giant spiders and flying cockroach-like bugs, strange insects that look like they belong to the prehistoric age, even the occasional butterfly.
The only unwelcome guest- scorpions. Every once in a while one pops up in an unlikely place. I was bitten by one in my bathroom a month ago.. Just a prick, but later numbing and then an interesting sort of pain.
Anyone else have a scorpion problem? Or am I the only lucky one?
Check your shoes!
I have a rather sophisticated and not usually superstitious friend from Tianjin who is afraid of huang shu lang because of their supposed supernatural powers. I couldn't quite understand what it is they're supposed to do to people, but what she was trying to describe sounded somewhat similar to what Zheng mentions above. She also thinks they have some sort of bad odor, similar to a skunk.
Does anyone know the taxonomic name for the huangshulang?
About 6 month ago the Jinan Evening Post ran a short story with a photo of a huangshulang that stopped traffic in Jinan. The article postulated that the drivers' motivation to avoid hitting the huangshulang was the huangshulang's tendency to catch and eat other less desirable rodents, like mice and rats.
I have seen the Huang Shulang at least half a dozen times coming home at night to building 1 of Douban Hutong compound. It usually runs across the parking lot and disappears into the bushes. No doubt it is rummaging through the trash like the other animals. Who says cats are all domesticated?
Bravo! Hen Hao! This is exactly the kind of stuff I'd love to see far more of! I learned Chinese mostly from Beijingers of the old school. Not only was their Beijing tu hua beaufiful,but I was infused with a deep appreciation of the small villiage orientation of Lao Beijing. Please use this as a base for the prolifiration of everything,including language,connected with the "old neighborhood" Beijing which everybody loves! Cordially, Ken Grey (Ke Rui Nien)
Huang shu lang has been known to have the ability to become "jing" which basically allows them to attain certain supernatural abilities as I have gathered. One distinct character when they become jing is that they can then manipulate humans which ultimately control the mind of a human. To put it more simply, a human being can be possessed by a huang shu lang jing and this happens because some animals such as fox and huang shu lang wants to be enlightened. Therefore, they are not good animals to be around humans because animals are forbiden to be enlightened in the kingdom of heaven and thus they can't practice to achieve englightenment likes human themselves do.
Speaking of yellow weasel there was rare footage of one scurrying down a Beijing hutong at night in part 5 of the six-part BBC series Wild China http://tinyurl.com/6j7g8s which is currently being shown in UK.
I have just returned from Beijing where I took part in the opening ceremony. We also took part in the 3 rehersals beforehand and used to get back to the Rainbow Hotel at about midnight! this was when we seen the HuangshuLang, we saw them twice and they run like squirrels, when you see there long haired tails bobbing up and down. I asked the chinese interpretator about them, and she said that they "stole children" this is obvious local superstition
The CBD of Qingdao also has them, as well as beautiful Laoshan lying 20km to the east. Was out eating chuanr when I saw one running along a wall. Had no clue at the time and thought maybe the Tsingtao had me seeing things, or it was some mutant species crawling up from the sewers. Then I was out hiking at Laoshan a few weeks later and a local villager had one hanging on the outside of his house. His dog had killed it. Thank you so much for this post! I am always looking to learn more about the flora and fauna of China and if anybody has some recommendations for sites or databases, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
We have also twice spotted a huang shulan in our Qingdao garden! Wonderful to find out what it is and have nature just outside our back door while in an urban setting!
Huang Shulang, Yellow Weasel, sighted at night running around the neighborhood near niu ren jie. It was yellow in color, aout as long as a house cat with and had a strait tail. Very cool to see WILD life with all of the construction (demolition) all around.
Living in the hutongs near dongsi / zhangzizhonglu, I've seen Huangshulang pretty regularly when walking home late at night. I'd always idly wondered what they ate -- until a few nights ago, when I discovered one raiding an overstuffed trash can. Normally they run past in a flash but this one was pigging out and not paying much attention to me, so I watched for a few minutes.
I always thought Beijing was a dead zone until I moved into the hutongs. TONS of wildlife here! Besides the weasels, there are all kinds of birds and insects, and my favorite, bihu, the grey geckos that wait under lamp posts for prey.
Also, for other amphibian lovers, there are a few species of frog / toad living in liangmahe. They're pretty dense in the area around Boat bar, where sanlitun north st. crosses the river.
@Ed Shred: Wikipedia says that it's Mustela sibirica.
I saw one the other night in Dongcheng near the Zhangzizhonglu Subway station.
For the longest time, I thought the huangshulang I was seeing were escaped pet ferrets... This makes me want to start a sports team and take the huangshulang as our mascot.
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