Wukong is going to need to go the the very top for help with the One-Horned Buffalo. No, not Guanyin. The very top.

The episode has some brief mentions of slavery and cruelty, and the torture headband gets brought up again in passing.

Links:

Clashmore on Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie/gallery/clashmore

Clashmore on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/clashmore

“Herd of Cork buffalo taken and returned within hours” on the Farmer’s Journal: https://www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/herd-of-cork-buffalo-taken-and-returned-within-hours-673814

Episode artwork is a painting of Laozi on a buffalo by Igarashi Shunmel and a photograph of Tramore: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lao_Zi_by_Ikarashi_Shunmei.jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tramore_Beach_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3361340.jpg

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