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Overview
Willowelf is an old willow tree that has absorbed the ethereal powers of sunlight and moonlight and thereby gained human form. Wilhelm and Martens describe him with a blue face and red hair and call him a disciple of Lu Dung Bin, the Guest of the Rocks. This brief notice occurs within the account of the Eight Immortals; it does not name Willowelf as a ninth member, give him a separate adventure or say that he is the flower fairy encountered earlier in the same chapter.
Origins & earliest records
Chinese tales mediated by Richard Wilhelm and Frederick H. Martens
Records & interpretation
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Selected bibliography
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The Chinese Fairy Book
XXX, The Eight Immortals (I), pp.76–82; specific notice p.77; New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company
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Primary records and illustrations
Richard Wilhelm/Frederick H. Martens, The Chinese Fairy Book (Stokes1921)
Tales of Saints and Magicians. XXX, The Eight Immortals (I), p.77
Complete chapter and all attached notes read in wilhelm-XXX.txt and29939.html. Description limited to source notice; no padded adventure or conflated adjacent variant.
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- Historical translated taleWilhelm/Martens, The Chinese Fairy Book, XXX, The Eight Immortals (I), p.77Research access: 2026-10-05
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