法苑珠林 64.32

64.32

唐顯慶三年。徐玉任晉州刺史之時。有屠兒在市東衖。殺一猪。命斷湯燖。皮毛並落。死經半日。貪殺餘猪。未及開解。至曉以刀破腹。長劃腹下。一刀刃猶未入腹。其猪忽起走出門。直入市西壁。至一賢者店內床下而臥。市人競往看之。屠兒猶執刀逐走。看者問其所由。屠兒答云。我一生已來殺猪未曾聞見此事。猶欲將去。看者數百人。皆瞋責屠兒。競出錢贖得。諸人共為造舍安置。身毛久始得生。胭下及腹下瘡處差已作大肉疣。麁如臂許。出入往來常不污其室。性潔不同餘猪。至四五年方卒（并州晉陽縣人王同仁徐王府掾正具見說之）。

In the third year of the Xianqing reign of the Tang dynasty, when Xu Yu served as Inspector of Jinzhou, a butcher in the eastern lane of the marketplace slaughtered a pig. Its life was ended, it was scalded with hot water, and all its hair and bristles were scraped off. After half a day had elapsed following its death, greedy to slaughter the other pigs, he had not yet had time to butcher and dismember it. At daybreak, he took a knife to slit its belly, making a long incision downward along the abdomen, but the knife blade had not yet penetrated inside. The pig suddenly rose, ran out of the gate, and dashed straight toward the western wall of the marketplace. It went under the bed inside a worthy man's shop and lay down there. The people of the market vied to go and look at it. The butcher was still pursuing it with his knife in hand. The onlookers asked about the cause, and the butcher replied, “In all my life slaughtering pigs, I have never heard of or seen such a thing!” He still wished to take it away. Several hundred onlookers all rebuked and censured the butcher, and they vied with one another to put up money to ransom it. The crowd jointly built a shelter to house it. Only after a long time did the hair on its body begin to grow. The wounds under its throat and belly healed into a large fleshy wart as thick as a human arm. Going in and out, back and forth, it never soiled its quarters; by nature it was clean, unlike ordinary pigs. It died only after four or five years. (Wang Tongren of Jinyang County in Bingzhou, an Administrative Assistant in the Prince of Xu's Princely Establishment, fully witnessed and recounted this).