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Japanese Folklore

Kitsune

A kitsune is in Japanese lore, a wild fox Demon that causes Possession. The kitsune also appears in the form of a beautiful maiden, who vampirizes her victims sexually as a Succubus.
13 June 2017

Okiku

Okiku ORIGIN: Japan The wealthy Aoyama family had an extremely valuable set of ten Delft (Dutch pottery) plates. Okiku, working as a maid in their home, was blamed when one plate broke or disappeared. She drowned in a well. Every
13 November 2017

Kubikajiri

The kubikajiri is in Japanese folklore, a head-eating ghost that lurks about graveyards late at night

Onryo

Onryo are ghosts who return to haunt the living with vengeance on their minds. Onryo may

Nabeshima

Nabeshima Pronunciation : (Nob-BAY-she-ma) The nabeshima, as it has come to be called, is a vampiric cat from the folklore of ancient Japan. It looks like a common enough cat except that

Akubo

Akubo In Japanese No plays, the character of a wicked priest who wears a coarse beard and carries a halberd. SEE ALSO: No Japanese Mythology – Legend and Folklore SOURCE: Encyclopedia of
23 September 2020

The Snow Bride

The Snow Bride Mosaku and his apprentice Minokichi journeyed to a forest, some little distance from their village. It was a bitterly cold night when they neared their destination, and saw in
6 September 2018

Neko-Mata

The Neko-Mata may look like an ordinary cat, but it’s not. It’s a powerful cat spirit able to shape-shift into human form. The Neko-Mata is a species of Bake-Neko or Obake-Neko, meaning
13 November 2017

Adachigahara

Adachigahara is in Japanese folklore, a cannibalistic woman spirit, portrayed with a kitchen knife, sometimes preparing to kill a child. According to one legend, she was a woman of high rank attached
21 September 2017

Buruburu

The buruburu is the “ghost of fear” in Japanese folklore. The buruburu lurks about in forests and graveyards in the form of a shaking old man or woman, sometimes one-eyed. The buruburu
25 July 2017

Funayuhrei

A funayuhrei is in Japanese folklore, a Ghost ship that travels silently at night or in thick fog. It appears suddenly without sound or lights. Meeting one on the sea is fatal.
25 July 2017

Gashadokuro

The gashadokuro are in Japanese folklore, the ghosts of people who have starved to death. The gashadokuro (“starving skeleton”) appears as a giant skeleton—up to 15 times taller than a person—made up
25 July 2017

Nurikabe

In the folklore of the Japanese island of Kyushu, the nurikabe is the “wall poltergeist.” It appears as a large white wall in front of people who are out walking about late
8 July 2017

Mononoke

In the ghost lore of Japan, the mononoke are a type of ghost comparable to the poltergeist, but which live in inanimate objects. According to Shinto belief, all things, even inanimate objects,
7 July 2017

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