Back in the city that had been so conducive to wishing I was someplace else in, I stumbled into a job at a local folklore center.

The following ten creatures were once dismissed by science as products of folklore, imagination, or deception, but are now formally recognized as their own species.

This was not from any love of the subject — I considered folklore a poor relation to literature — but out of sheer expediency.

Many fear that these customs will disappear as new concepts and ideas come in from outside of China.

His book, “The Folklore of Capitalism”, published a year earlier, was widely seen as a satire on the inadequacy of the country’s antitrust laws.