oops - my bad. Just checked Haw - it's my fuzzy memory that added an 'i' to the end. Google informs me Hei Bai is a kick-ass forest protector spirit :biggrin:
But that's great information, Leftwood - I had no idea 'Bai He' was so generic a term, but that explains a lot. Reading Haw (again, to find clarification), it's obvious now why he found so much confusion in the chinese literature over the description (and thus identity) of bai he - the authors of old were not being specific, just refering to 'lily'.
