法苑珠林 32.46

32.46

During the Yongjia disturbances of the Jin dynasty, commanderies and counties had no fixed masters, and the strong and weak abused each other. In Yiyang county, there was a woman named Peng E. More than ten members of her household—parents and brothers—were killed by bandits from Changsha. At the time, E was carrying a vessel to draw water at the stream. Hearing that the bandits had arrived, she ran back, only to see that the earthen walls had already been breached. Overcome with grief, she struggled with the bandits. The bandits bound E, drove her to the bank of the stream, and were about to kill her. At the edge of the stream was a great mountain, with stone cliffs several tens of zhang high. E looked up and cried out, "Does August Heaven possess a spirit or not? For what crime must I suffer this?" She then ran toward the mountain. The mountain instantly opened wide by several zhang, with a level road smooth as a whetstone. The band of bandits pursued E into the mountain as well. The mountain then collapsed and shut together, silent and smooth as before. The bandits were all crushed to death inside the mountain with their heads sticking out. E thereupon vanished and did not emerge again. The water-drawing vessel that E had dropped transformed into a stone shaped like a chicken. The locals consequently called it Stone Chicken Mountain, and the water E Pool. (This one verification is from the Youming lu.)