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Like the rokurokobi, the hitoban has a line around its neck. [4] Chinese stories also tell of a yōkai called a rakutō (落頭) whose head comes off and floats about while the torso remains at rest on the futon. There is a tale that in the Three Kingdoms period, an Eastern Wu general, Zhu Huan employed a female servant who was a rakutō. It's ...
Feathered serpent - A Mesoamerican spirit deity that possessed a snake-like body and feathered wings. Garuda – A creature that has the head, wings, and legs of an eagle and body of a man. Gorgon – Each of them has snakes in place of their hair; sometimes also depicted with a snake-like lower body.
Spirited Away (anime, movie) – the character Haku looks like a Mizuchi and he is a river spirit. Inuyasha (manga) - the character a snake yokai called Mizuchi using its spit venom and poison mist. Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (anime) - the character a snake yokai called Mizuchi using its spit venom and poison mist. (games)
Bai Ze, a cow-like monster with a human head, six horns and nine eyes. Baihu; Bai Suzhen; Bailongma; Bashe, a python-like snake that ate elephants. [1] Bifang, a crane-like bird with only one foot that is accompanied by strange fires [2] Bixi, a dragon with the shell of a turtle. Birds in Chinese mythology
In the movie The Great Yokai War sunekosuri appeared as yellow and white lumps of hair with cute eyes. [6] In the 2018 anime adaptation of GeGeGe no Kitarō, the sunekokusuri takes the appearance of a small, chubby, tabby cat, having forgotten his true form. It appears as a bakeneko creature feeding on human lifeforce, forced to leave his dwelling.
A low-ranking tengu that looks like an anthropomorphic bird. Karura A divine anthropomorphic eagle akin to the Hindu Garuda. Kasa-obake A paper-umbrella monster that is sometimes considered a tsukumogami. Kasha A cart-like demon that descends from the sky, or a cat-like demon, which carries away the corpses of evildoers. Katawaguruma
Texas has the most snakes in the United States but if you want to talk about venomous snakes, you have to look to Arizona, which has — wait for it — 19 of the country’s 20 dangerous snakes.
Yōkai (妖怪, "strange apparition") are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore.The kanji representation of the word yōkai comprises two characters that both mean "suspicious, doubtful", [1] and while the Japanese name is simply the Japanese transliteration or pronunciation of the Chinese term yaoguai (which designates similarly strange creatures), some Japanese ...