5.07.2009

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.

so much more that is wonderful
and scary

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