Con Ion
Also called Con-Ion, Con lon.
Vietnamese spirits that enter life only to leave it, returning through the same woman's successive stillbirths until a dog is buried beneath her bed.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Vietnamese folklore
- Region
- Vietnam (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Hearth-Bound
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Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Sight and sound
- Cries out for lost children
why
In Annamese belief these are spirits that come into a human life by birth and cause the child to be stillborn or miscarried, and then come again by the same route.
Curses
- Curse infliction
why
Having borne one or more Con Ion, she is held to be contagious: no one will touch her, and no one will mention her.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.
- Death meets
1 citation
- Carol Rose, Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins, s.v. "Con Ion."