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Ye Fashan

Also known as: Master Ye

A Tang Daoist master whose talismans break the spells of Heavenly Foxes.

Ye Fashan was a Daoist master at the Tang court. In the tales he gives a magistrate a talisman that frees his wife from a fox disguised as a Brahmin monk, and has the fox beaten and banished a thousand li. His followers are sent by imperial order against the fox Wu Nanhe, but fail.

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