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.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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,
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