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A river spirit that pretends to be a crying baby to lure people in for pranks that sometimes prove fatal to the victim. Kawa-no-Kami The king of the river gods, who serves the Emperor. He is mentioned only in the Man'yōshū. Kawauso Mischievous shapeshifting river otter spirits. Kaya-no-hime A kami of vegetation, grass and fields.
The two proceed in a destructive battle that further devastates Shibuya. To counteract Mahoraga's ability to adapt to any attack, Sukuna activates his Domain Expansion: Malevolent Shrine, which mercilessly slashes every thing and every person within a 140-meter radius, including Mahoraga. Haruta is caught in the attack and killed.
An illustration from an 1866 Japanese book. Mahoraga, who is an incarnation of Bodhisattva Kannon in this scene, gives a sermon to folks. The Mahoraga are one of the eight classes of deities (aṣṭasenā) that are said to protect the Dharma. They are described as huge subterranean serpents who lie on their sides and rotate the earth, which ...
It is malevolent and harmful to humans. Etymology suggests the ability to seduce or enthrall. Wangliang (魍魎) [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] [ 45 ] : a kind of wilderness demon associated with rivers and marshes, or else with apparitions between rocks and trees, or else a brain-eating sprite, and alternatively a plague-causing being, sometimes ...
Noroi: The Curse (ノロイ, Noroi) is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed and co-written by Kōji Shiraishi.It stars Jin Muraki as Masafumi Kobayashi, a paranormal researcher investigating a series of mysterious events for a documentary.
Tigris – giant lion of the forest of Bei Ilai; Vaikuntha Chaturmurti – a four-headed aspect of the Hindu god Vishnu: a human head, a lion head, a boar head and a fierce head; Winged lion; Yali (mythology) – Portrayed with the head and the body of a lion, the trunk and the tusks of an elephant, and sometimes bearing equine features.
The Ōmiwa Shrine is directly linked to Mount Miwa in that the mountain is the shrine's shintai, or "kami-body", instead of a building housing a "kami-body".This type of mountain worship (shintai-zan) is found in the earliest forms of Shinto and has also been employed at Suwa Shrine in Nagano, and formerly at Isonokami Shrine in Nara and Munakata Shrine in Fukuoka.
Oiwa Shrine Believed to be the former home of a woman who was murdered by her husband. [1] Hachiōji Castle An abandoned castle site. Visitors to the ruins claim to hear the screams of women. [5] [6] Prudential Tower In 1982, a fire in the building killed 33 people, making people believe it to be haunted. [7] [8] Akasaka Mansion hotel