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Beholder, a creature in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with one large eye and many smaller eyestalks; Cyclops in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons; Draken, a one-eyed sea monster in the animated series Jumanji; Imbra, an idol and the highest god of Kafiristan in Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King
The bird eyes that grows on the dodomeki's arm are a reference to the Japanese dōsen, a copper coin with a hole in the middle of it that's commonly known as the chōmoku (Bird's eye). [ 2 ] The creature first appears in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki by Toriyama Sekien, here he states the origins of the creature are found in the Kankan-gaishi ...
A species of one-eyed oni that kill and eat humans, large enough to devour a man in one bite. Onikuma A bipedal bear yōkai from the Kiso Valley in Nagano Prefecture, that carries livestock out of villages at night. Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 69)
Also, in the "Okayama no Kaidan", at Kamimomiimaidani, Kumenan, Kume District, Okayama Prefecture, there was a hill road called Hitokuchizaka (一口坂, "one mouth hill"), and in the past, when one walks that path at night, a bright blue light together with a hitotsume-kozō would appear, and those who are unable to stand due to surprise/fear ...
Jinn (Arabian, Islamic) – Spiritual creatures; genii; Jipijka'm – Underwater horned snake; lives in lakes and eats humans; Jiufeng – Nine-headed bird worshiped by ancient natives in Hubei Province. Jiu tou niao – Nine-headed, demonic bird; Jogah – Little people nature spirit; Jörmungandr – Sea serpent
This hitotsume-nyūdō and the hitotsume-kozō has the appearance of a nyūdō (monk), but there is a theory that it comes from the yōkai called "ichigan hitoashi hōshi (一眼一足法師, one-eyed one-footed hōshi)" from Mount Hiei.
Umibōzu (海坊主, "sea priest") is a giant, black, human-like being and is the figure of a yōkai from Japanese folklore. Other names include Umihōshi (海法師, "sea priest") or Uminyūdō (海入道, "sea priest"). Little is known of the origin of umibōzu but it is a mythical sea-spirit creature and as such has multiple sightings ...
A figure of a kasa-obake from the 1968 film Yokai Monsters: One Hundred Monsters A two-legged kasa-obake from the "Hyakki Yagyo Zumaki" by Enshin Kanō. [1]Kasa-obake (Japanese: 傘おばけ) [2] [3] are a mythical ghost or yōkai in Japanese folklore.