Those who eat it won't have a serious illness, and it can be taken to cure a swelling....The River Trailer rises on its summit and runs a hidden course to its base.
If you eat it, you won't succumb to the plague of the malign force.Guo Pu (276–324) noted that they were in his times also found in Junshan Lake (君山池) in Yangxian County (陽羨縣, approximately modern Yixing).
[3] The morbid zhiguai tale "Three-legged Softshell Turtles" by the Ming dynasty writer Lu Can (1494–1551), from his collection Gengsi Bian (庚巳編), contradicts the Classic's dietary advice.
The county magistrate, Huang Tingxuan, could not make sense of it so he threw her in prison and ordered the fishermen to catch another three-legged softshell turtle or face consequences.
When they dragged it to shore, they saw that it looked like a limbless human with all facial features intact; the eyes were closed but the body was shifting awkwardly.