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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 ...
Even though the kijin and onryō of Japanese Buddhist faith have taken humans' lives, there is the opinion that there is no "death god" that merely leads people into the world of the dead. [6] In Postwar Japan , however, the Western notion of a death god entered Japan, and shinigami started to become mentioned as an existence with a human nature.
The angry ghosts of people who died at sea, who now seek to sink ships to have the living join them. Furaribi A birdlike creature engulfed in flames that flies aimlessly, thought to be the restless spirits of those not given a proper burial. Fūri A monkey-like Chinese yōkai that can glide from tree to tree. Furutsubaki-no-rei
Yomi or Yomi-no-kuni (黄泉, 黄泉の国, or 黄泉ノ国) is the Japanese word for the land of the dead (World of Darkness). [1] According to Shinto mythology as related in Kojiki, this is where the dead go in the afterlife. Once one has eaten at the hearth of Yomi it is (mostly) impossible to return to the land of the living. [2]
Okiku, Oiwa, and the lovesick Otsuyu together make up the San O-Yūrei (三大幽霊, "three great Yūrei") of Japanese culture. These are yūrei whose stories have been passed down and retold throughout the centuries, and whose characteristics along with their circumstances and fates have formed a large part of Japanese art and society.
It was claimed that dead raijū are essentially real dead animals startled or knocked off from the tree during tempestuous weather of Japan. [2] Recent theories suggest that raijū are essentially a small tree-dwelling creature known as the masked palm civet ( Paguma larvata ), which is actually native to certain countries in southern , eastern ...
Jikininki (食人鬼, "human-eating ghosts") appear in Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) as corpse-eating spirits.In Japanese Buddhism, jikininki ("human-eating ghosts"; pronounced shokujinki in modern Japanese), are similar to Gaki/Hungry ghost; the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat humans and ...
The Jubokko (Japanese: 樹木子, "tree child" [1]) is a yōkai tree in Japanese folklore that appears in many books related to Japanese yōkai, including Shigeru Mizuki's works. According to folklore, it appears in former battlefields where many people have died, and its appearance does not differ that much from ordinary trees.