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  2. Tsuchigumo - Wikipedia

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    "Tsuchigumo" from the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki by Sekien Toriyama Tsuchigumo, from Bakemono no e scroll, Brigham Young University. Tsuchigumo (土蜘蛛, literally translated "dirt/earth spider") is a historical Japanese derogatory term for renegade local clans, and also the name for a race of spider-like yōkai in Japanese folklore.

  3. Jorōgumo - Wikipedia

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    Jorōgumo from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien.. Jorōgumo (Japanese: 絡新婦 (), じょろうぐも ()) is a type of yōkai, a creature of Japanese folklore.It can shapeshift into a beautiful woman, so the kanji that represent its actual meaning are 女郎蜘蛛 (lit.

  4. List of legendary creatures from Japan - Wikipedia

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    A Japanese spider demon. Kunado-no-Kami Local kami connected chiefly with protection against disaster and malicious spirits. They protect the boundaries of villages. Kunekune A long, slender strip of paper that wiggles on rice or barley fields during hot summers, this yōkai is actually a recent invention. Kuni-no-Tokotachi

  5. Cultural depictions of spiders - Wikipedia

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    In this story, Spider Grandmother thought the world into existence through the conscious weaving of her webs. Spider Grandmother also plays an important role in the creation mythology of the Navajo, and there are stories relating to Spider Woman in the heritage of many Southwestern native cultures as a powerful helper and teacher. [31]

  6. Category:Mythological spiders - Wikipedia

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    Phalanx (mythology) S. Spider Grandmother; T. Tsuchigumo This page was last edited on 25 December 2024, at 14:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  7. List of Japanese deities - Wikipedia

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    Kōjin (三宝荒神), is the god of fire, the hearth, and the kitchen. Konjin (金神) Kotoshironushi (事代主神) Kuebiko (久延毘古), the god of knowledge and agriculture, represented in Japanese mythology as a scarecrow who cannot walk but has comprehensive awareness. Kukunochi, believed to be the ancestor of trees. [22]

  8. Ushi-oni - Wikipedia

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    The tale about the yōkai at Mio River pool is an extremely unusual story about an ushi-oni who would shapeshift into a human, and even help a human. A young lad shared his bentō with a woman, who was the shapeshifted master of the stream pool, the ushi-oni , and when this young lad was washed away by a flood two months later, he was saved by ...

  9. Japanese mythology - Wikipedia

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    The Jorōgumo spider is commonly told in Japanese folklore. The word itself translate to the meaning,"whore spider". Every story commonly states, that the creature captures it's prey by first seeming like a beautiful women than after seduction is complete turning into the much more bitter better half.