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The Gashadokuro is a spirit that takes the form of a giant skeleton made of the skulls of people who died in the battlefield or of starvation/famine (while the corpse becomes a gashadokuro, the spirit becomes a separate yōkai, known as hidarugami.), and is 10 or more meters tall. Only the eyes protrude, and some sources describe them as ...
This was the first time characters from Getsu Fūma Den were featured in a game released in the west and thus many of the enemy characters and items were given localized names in the English version. Otomedius Excellent - a spin-off in the Gradius series released for the Xbox 360 in 2011 featuring young girls who can transform into spacecraft ...
The PDF 1.4 specification allowed form submissions in XML format, but this was replaced by submissions in XFDF format in the PDF 1.5 specification. XFDF conforms to the XML standard. XFDF can be used in the same way as FDF; e.g., form data is submitted to a server, modifications are made, then sent back and the new form data is imported in an ...
As its name implies, it depicts this yōkai as a woman in the form of bones. In Sekien's explanatory text in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki states that there is a story called Otogi Bōko ( 御伽ばうこ ) in which an aged female skeleton would carry a chōchin (lantern) decorated with botan flowers on it and visit the house of a man she loved ...
Homeless Children in 2010: 31,386 11 For the complete Report Card (including sources), please visit: www.HomelessChildrenAmerica.org STATE RANKS (1-50, 1 = best)
Konjaku Monogatarishū (今昔物語集, lit. Anthology of Tales Old and New), also known as the Konjaku Monogatari (今昔物語), is a Japanese collection of over one thousand tales written during the late Heian period (794–1185). [1]
The game is played after nightfall in one of two ways. The simplest form involves participants sitting in a circle in a room where 100 andon lamps or candles are lit. As participants take turns telling ghost stories and tales of the supernatural, a lantern is snuffed out after each story, causing the room to become darker and darker as the night and the game progress.
The giant spider-like figure of the tsuchigumo as a oni-like yōkai first appeared in medieval literary works. The most representative work among these tales is The Tale of the Heike , compiled in the Kamakura period (1185–1333) in the first half of the 13th century, in which it appears under the name yamagumo ( 山蜘蛛 , "mountain spider") .