法苑珠林 32.47

32.47

晉義熙四年。東陽郡太末縣吳道宗。少失父。單與母居。未有婦兒。宗賃不在家。隣人聞其屋中砰礚之聲。闚不見其母但有烏斑虎在其屋中。鄉里驚怛。恐虎入其家食其母。便鳴鼓會人。共往救之。圍宅突進不見有虎。但見其母語如平常。不解其意。兒還。母語之曰。宿罪見追當有變化事。後一月日便失母。縣界內虎災屢起。皆云。母烏斑虎。百姓患之發人格擊之。殺數人。後人射虎白鷹并戟刺中其腹。然不能即得。經數日後虎還其家故床上。不能復人形。伏床上而死。其兒號泣如葬其母法。朝冥哭臨之（右此一驗出齊諧記）。

In the fourth year of the Yixi reign era of the Jin dynasty, Wu Daozong of Taimo county in Dongyang commandery lost his father at an early age. He lived alone with his mother and had no wife or children yet. Zong was hired out as a laborer and was not at home. A neighbor heard a loud, crashing sound in their house. Peering in, he did not see the mother, but only a black-striped tiger inside the house. The villagers were alarmed and frightened, fearing that the tiger had entered the house and eaten his mother. They beat drums and gathered people to go together to rescue her. Surrounding the residence, they rushed in, but saw no tiger; they saw only his mother, whose speech was as usual, and they could not fathom the meaning of it. When her son returned, the mother said to him, "I am pursued by past sins and must undergo a transformation." A month later, the mother disappeared. Within the county borders, tiger calamities frequently arose, and everyone said it was the mother, the black-striped tiger. The common people, suffering from this, dispatched men to fight and strike it. It killed several people. Later, someone shot the tiger with a white hawk and pierced its belly with a halberd, yet they could not capture it immediately. After several days, the tiger returned to its former bed in its home, unable to resume human form. It collapsed on the bed and died. Her son wailed and wept, following the rites for burying his mother, weeping and mourning for her morning and night. (This one verification is from the Qixie ji.)