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Like the Japanese description of the beast, in Chinese and in Scandinavian lore this beast is infamous for kidnapping and drowning people as well as horses. The siyokoy of the Philippine islands is also known for kidnapping children by the water's edge. [citation needed] A frog-face vodyanoy is known in Slavic mythology.
Heqet – The frog-headed Egyptian God. Horus, Monthu, Ra, and Seker – Each of these Egyptian Gods has the head of a falcon or hawk. Inmyeonjo – A human face with bird body creature in ancient Korean mythology. Karura – A divine creature of Japanese Hindu-Buddhist mythology with the head of a bird and the torso of a human.
Due to the influence of a large number of Hawaiians with Japanese ancestry, on the islands of Hawaii the term obake has found its way into the dialect of the local people. . Some Japanese stories concerning these creatures have found their way into local culture in Hawaii: numerous sightings of kappa have been reported on the islands, and the Japanese faceless ghosts called noppera-bō have ...
They are used during ceremonies to call the kami for worship. Once a yorishiro actually houses a kami, it is called a shintai. Yōsei The Japanese version of fairies, and the term for spirits from Western legends. Yosuzume A mysterious bird yōkai that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near. Yuki-onna
Azeban is a lower-level trickster spirit in Abenaki mythology. The traditional homeland of the Abenaki is Wobanakik (Place of the Dawn), what is now called northern New England and southern Quebec. Azeban (also spelled Azban, Asban or Azaban) is a raccoon, the Abenaki trickster figure. Pronounced ah-zuh-bahn.
A representative sampling of Japanese folklore would definitely include the quintessential Momotarō (Peach Boy), and perhaps other folktales listed among the so-called "five great fairy tales" (五大昔話, Go-dai Mukashi banashi): [3] the battle between The Crab and the Monkey, Shita-kiri Suzume (Tongue-cut sparrow), Hanasaka Jiisan (Flower-blooming old man), and Kachi-kachi Yama.
Japanese folklore encompasses the informally learned folk traditions of Japan and the Japanese people as expressed in its oral traditions, customs, and material culture. In Japanese, the term minkan denshō (民間伝承, "transmissions among the folk") is used to describe folklore. The academic study of folklore is known as minzokugaku ...
Ame-no-Uzume (天宇受売命 or 天鈿女命) Commonly called Uzume, she is the goddess of dawn and revelry in Shinto. [ 3 ] Fūjin ( 風神 ) Also known as Kaze-no-kami , he is the Japanese god of the wind and one of the eldest Shinto gods, said to have been present at the creation of the world.