In ancient China, people always thought that women were "disaster", and the reason why the monarch was dissolute and ruined the country was because he was obsessed with "the spirit of solitary raccoons". For example, Xia Jie is infatuated with sisters-in-law, Shang Zhou loves da ji, and Zhou You loves praise.

In the ancient west, the appearance of this concept may have started from the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. This story was first seen in Genesis of the Old Testament. This story has far-reaching influence: St. Augustine suggested that Eve's soul came from Adam, or that God blew a breath into her nostrils and made her have her own soul. Both of these statements have been proved.