Lĩnh Nam chích quái
- Date of account
- late 14th century or later redactions
- Location
- Vietnam, with stories concerning the Red River region and southern lands
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Lĩnh Nam chích quái, commonly translated as Selected Strange Tales from Lĩnh Nam, preserves Vietnamese origin legends, dragon and mountain-spirit traditions, heroic genealogies, and stories connected with local cults. The collection is useful for comparing vernacular mythography with Chinese historiographical and anomaly-recording genres. Its compiler, earliest form, and successive revisions are debated, and later editors likely reshaped earlier materials. Researchers should identify the particular edition or recension before comparing motifs, dates, or claims about premodern Vietnamese belief.
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