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Japan: The Fearsome and Bizarre

Akaname - The spirit who licks the bathroom.

Jorōgumo half-woman/half-spider surrounded by her spider children.

A Nuppeppo is a Japanese spirit; appearing at midnight in ruined temples or near graveyards--a chunk of dead flesh walking by itself. The kind of pet you think is darned cute at first but then the smell eventually gets to you. Like a ferret.

Dodomeki - the ghost of a pickpocket, her arms are covered in eyes.

The amikiri, a creature that exists for no other purpose than to cut mosquito netting. Which isn't so bad, by the looks of it.


Long ago, a Samurai was walking at night down the road to Kyōto, when he heard someone calling out for him to wait. "Who's there?!" he asked nervously, only to turn around and find a man stripping off his clothes and pointing his bare buttocks at the flabbergasted traveler. As if this weren't traumatizing enough, a huge glittering eye then opened up where the strange man's anus should have been.

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She was now a rotting form of flesh with maggots and foul creatures running over her ravaged body.

Crying out loud, Izanagi could no longer control his fear and started to run, intending to return to the living and abandon his death-ridden wife. Izanami woke up shrieking and indignant and chased after him. Wild shikome or foul women also hunted for the frightened Izanagi, instructed by Izanami to bring him back.

Izanagi, thinking quickly, hurled down his headdress which became a bunch of black grapes. The shikome fell on these but continued pursuit. Next, Izanagi threw down his comb which became a clump of bamboo shoots. Now it was Yomi's creatures that began to give chase, but Izanagi urinated against a tree, creating a great river that increased his lead. Unfortunately, they still pursued Izanagi, forcing him to hurl peaches at them. He knew this would not delay them for long, but he was nearly free, for the boundary of Yomi was now close at hand.

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