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<div>[[Image:Suushi_Inugami.jpg|thumb|260px|right|The ''inugami'' as depicted in Sawaki Suushi's yakkai-Zukan.]]<br />
In Japanese mythology an '''inugami''' (犬神, lit. "dog god") is a familiar spirit originated from a dog.<br />
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==Appearance==<br />
Inugami are known for carrying out vengeance or acting as guardians on behalf of the inugami-mochi, or "inugami owner". Inugami are extremely powerful and capable of existing independently, as well as turning on their "owners" and even possessing humans.<br />
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==Origin==<br />
The general belief is that an inugami is created by tying a dog and placing a bowl of food just out of its reach. It would take days for the dog to die, and during this time the dog's master would tell it that its pain is nothing compared to his own. The onmyouji then follow some secret black magic rituals. When the dog dies, it become an inugami; since its dying wish would have been to eat, the food placed around the corpse would act as a placatory offering, and thus make the spirit obedient. The ghost-dog is then used as weapon to scare to death the enemies of the dog's master. Inugami are, by any account, terrible and wrathful, fearful and powerful. Only an experienced and prepared onmyouji may ever attempt to control one successfully.<br />
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A more specific legend states that an old woman who desired revenge against an enemy buried her treasured dog in the ground with only its head sticking out, and said "If you have a soul, do my will and I will worship you as a god." She then sawed the dog's head off with a bamboo saw (which would have been extremely painful), releasing the dog's spirit as an inugami. The spirit did as she wished, but in return for its painful death it haunted the old woman.<br />
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==Powers==<br />
In the Oki Islands, the inugami takes on the function that the kitsune (fox) holds in many other regions of Japan. It is believed that an inugami-mochi will be blessed with great fortune and success, and that favors granted by them will be returned with interest. However, in exchange the inugami-mochi are shunned by other people, and find it hard to get married; they must also be careful not to offend their inugami lest they receive its wrath, as unlike the kitsune, an inugami does not merely follow its master's wishes, but also acts on its own impulses.<br />
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An inugami's original body stays behind when it leaves to follow its masters wishes; the buried corpse slowly withers and rots, and if the inugami returns after the body is no longer habitable, it may take control of its master's body, making it even more powerful. Possession by an inugami is said to cure sickness, or ill health; however, it also results in the possessed behaving like a dog. Only a powerful sorceror or witch doctor can cure the unfortunate bystanders from the dog-ghost's possession. <br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
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* InuYasha, Sesshomaru, Sesshomaru's Mother, and Inu no Taishou in the anime InuYasha<br />
* An inugami created for revenge appears in the OVA version of Tokyo Babylon<br />
* Inuki from the manga X acts as a guardian to Nekoi Yuzuriha<br />
* The PS2 RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne features inugami as a recruitable demon.<br />
* Inugami is a Japanese clan that possesses Harmonixer blood in the PS2 RPG "Shadow Hearts: Covenant". One member of the Inugami clan, "Kurando Inugami", is a playable character.<br />
* An inugami is the main character in the PS2 action game Ikusagami (war god).<br />
* Kotaro Inugami from the manga and anime series Negima.<br />
* Inugami is also the name of a manga written by Masaya Hokazono<br />
* Yoko in the anime Inukami! is referred to as an inugami until it is known that she is a Kitsune or Fox spirit.<br />
* Sadaharu from the anime series Gintama<br />
* Inugami Circus-dan is the name of a Japanese rock band.<br />
* the manga Her Majesty's Dog by Mick Takeuchi is about a psychic and her "demon dog" guardian who takes a human form to better watch over her. adding to the shojo quality of the manga, he gets his energy from her kiss, complicating their master-dog relationship<br />
* Manga/TV anime Inu-Yasha - Inu-Yasha may be at least in part based on the concept of inugami.<br />
* Manga/Anime Tokyo Babylon - The anime OVAs are preferred to the manga version. In the first OVA, the trio of onmyouji are drawn into a terrifying situation in which a woman's dear brother has met his end by the actions of a particularly unsavory and unscrupulous businessman. To exact her vengeance, she summons an inugami and is unprepared for the backlash, which Subaru and Hokuto must deal with.<br />
* Manga/TV anime Kishin Douji Zenki/Zenki - One of the major villains is actually an inugami.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
{{Wikipedia}}<br />
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[[Category: Japanese mythology]]<br />
[[Category: Yokai]]<br />
[[Category: Fairy animals]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Hyakkai-Zukan&diff=10971Hyakkai-Zukan2008-05-06T22:20:58Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>'''Hyakkai-Zukan''' (百怪図巻, "The Illustrated Volume of a Hundred Demons") is a collection of picture scrolls by Edo Period Japanese artist Sawaki Suushi. Completed in 1737, these scrolls are supernatural bestiaries, collections of ghosts, spirits and monsters, of which Suushi based on literature, folklore, other artwork. These works had a profound influence on subsequent yōkai imagery in Japan for generations.<br />
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[[Category: Classic literature]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Hyakkai-Zukan&diff=10970Hyakkai-Zukan2008-05-06T22:20:43Z<p>Lilith: New page: '''Hyakkai-Zukan''' (百怪図巻, Hyakkai-Zukan? "The Illustrated Volume of a Hundred Demons") is a collection of picture scrolls by Edo Period Japanese artist Sawaki Suushi. Completed in...</p>
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<div>'''Hyakkai-Zukan''' (百怪図巻, Hyakkai-Zukan? "The Illustrated Volume of a Hundred Demons") is a collection of picture scrolls by Edo Period Japanese artist Sawaki Suushi. Completed in 1737, these scrolls are supernatural bestiaries, collections of ghosts, spirits and monsters, of which Suushi based on literature, folklore, other artwork. These works had a profound influence on subsequent yōkai imagery in Japan for generations.<br />
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[[Category: Classic literature]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=File:SekienHoneonna.jpg&diff=10969File:SekienHoneonna.jpg2008-05-06T22:04:21Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>[[Image:SekienHoneonna.jpg|thumb|Honeonna from ''Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki'']]<br />
'''Hone-onna''' (骨女, literally: skeleton woman) is a yōkai of Japanese folklore. <br />
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Hone-onna is known for taking the frightening form of a skeleton woman. She may also take the guise of a beautiful woman, to lure unwitting men into having sex with her while she suck them dry. <br />
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[[Category: Vampires]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=File:Hitotsume-kozo.jpg&diff=10967File:Hitotsume-kozo.jpg2008-05-06T21:56:50Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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'''Hitotsume-kozo''' (一つ目小僧, "one-eyed boys") are cyclops creatures found in Japanese folklore. <br />
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==Appearance==<br />
Hitotsume-kozo are roughly the size of ten-year-old children, but otherwise resemble bald Buddhist priests. Their most distinctive feature, however, is a single, giant eye peering from the center of the face, along with a long tongue, much like a Tsukomogami monster.<br />
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==Behavior==<br />
Hitotsume-kozo are relatively benign creatures, content to run about frightening human beings or telling loud people to be quiet (they enjoy silence). However, many people consider an encounter with a one-eyed goblin to be a bad omen. For this reason, the superstitious often leave bamboo baskets in front of their houses, as these are reputed to repel the creatures. A reason for this may be that, in seeing the basket's many holes, the hitotsume-kozo will see the basket as having many eyes, and run away jealous and ashamed at only having one. <br />
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In reality, apart from a few tricks, they are almost never known to intentionally cause harm to anyone and may even bring good fortune.<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
*Gekka no Kenshi/Last Blade (various systems) - Akari, a young onmyouji, uses various attacks that involve youkai. One of them is a special move that summons "a hundred youkai" to parade across the screen in a happy procession, and one of the youkai is hitotsume-kozou.<br />
*Mizuki Shigeru no Youkai Douchuuki (Super Famicom) - In this board-game style adventure, one of the player characters available for control is Hitotsume-Kozou.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
{{Wikipedia}}<br />
[[Category: Japanese mythology]]<br />
[[Category: Yokai]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Hitotsume-koz%C5%8D&diff=10965Hitotsume-kozō2008-05-06T21:54:53Z<p>Lilith: New page: thumb| '''Hitotsume-kozo''' (一つ目小僧, "one-eyed boys") are cyclops creatures found in Japanese folklore. ==Appearance= Hitotsume-kozo are roughly the siz...</p>
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'''Hitotsume-kozo''' (一つ目小僧, "one-eyed boys") are cyclops creatures found in Japanese folklore. <br />
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==Appearance=<br />
Hitotsume-kozo are roughly the size of ten-year-old children, but otherwise resemble bald Buddhist priests. Their most distinctive feature, however, is a single, giant eye peering from the center of the face, along with a long tongue, much like a Tsukomogami monster.<br />
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==Behavior==<br />
Hitotsume-kozo are relatively benign creatures, content to run about frightening human beings or telling loud people to be quiet (they enjoy silence). However, many people consider an encounter with a one-eyed goblin to be a bad omen. For this reason, the superstitious often leave bamboo baskets in front of their houses, as these are reputed to repel the creatures. A reason for this may be that, in seeing the basket's many holes, the hitotsume-kozo will see the basket as having many eyes, and run away jealous and ashamed at only having one. <br />
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In reality, apart from a few tricks, they are almost never known to intentionally cause harm to anyone and may even bring good fortune.<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
*Gekka no Kenshi/Last Blade (various systems) - Akari, a young onmyouji, uses various attacks that involve youkai. One of them is a special move that summons "a hundred youkai" to parade across the screen in a happy procession, and one of the youkai is hitotsume-kozou.<br />
*Mizuki Shigeru no Youkai Douchuuki (Super Famicom) - In this board-game style adventure, one of the player characters available for control is Hitotsume-Kozou.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
{{Wikipedia}}<br />
[[Category: Japanese mythology]]<br />
[[Category: Yokai]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=File:SekienHitodama.jpg&diff=10964File:SekienHitodama.jpg2008-05-06T21:38:26Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>[[Image:SekienHitodama.jpg|thumb|160px|right|The ''hitodama'' as illustrated by Toriyama Sekien.]]<br />
'''Hitodama''' (人魂, 人玉, Hitodama? "human soul" or "human ball") are believed in Japanese folklore to be the souls of the newly dead taking form of mysterious fireballs. <br />
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==Etymology==<br />
The word hitodama is a combination of the Japanese words hito, meaning "human", and tama, meaning "soul". <br />
Ghostly fires in Japan may also be called onibi (鬼火, onibi? "demon fire"). In Chinese they are called guǐ-huǒ (Pinyin) or gwäe-fo (Cantonese). Hitodama is the Japanese counterpart to the English "Will o' the wisp".<br />
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==Appearance==<br />
These flames supposedly appear as pale blue, some times green, spheres with long tails and are believed to be tricksters originating from fluorescent gases that can sometimes be seen above human graves.<br />
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==Behavior==<br />
Hitodama are usually said to be found near graveyards and in gloomy forests in summer time, where they are said to live. They are alleged sometimes seen close to a sick dying person as an apparition of the soul leaving the body before going to the other side. Most hitodama fade away or fall to the ground shortly after being spotted.<br />
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The tricks they are known to play on people most is leading travelers off track and thereby making them lost. Some Japanese myths consider hitodama a trick of the kitsune, employing their "fox-fire" (kitsune-bi) to lead travelers astray.<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
* The Tecmo horror series Fatal Frame shows hitodama being released from spirits that the player manages to successfully exorcise.<br />
* Hitodama is an ally of the main character Okinu in the Ghost Sweeper Mikami anime and manga.<br />
* The characters Yomu Konpaku and Yuyuko Saigyoji in the Toho Project computer games are accompianied by hitodama. Youmu is described as a half-ghost, with her ghostly half residing outside of her human body and taking the shape of a large hitodama; whereas Yuyuko, a ghost princess, is usually seen with several small hitodama.<br />
* Hitodama are also commonly featured as minor enemies in many Japanese video games that have horror, supernatural and folkloric themes, i.e. Pocky & Rocky, Ganbare Goemon, etc.<br />
* In the Shaman King series, some spirits appear sometimes in a Hitodama-like form, most notably Amidamaru.<br />
* Hitodama is a boss fought in the Underworld in the game Legend of Mana.<br />
* In the series Inuyasha the re-animated priestess, Kikyo, is sustained by Hitodama which are harvested for her by special "soul carrier" demons.<br />
* In the video game, Okami, several hitodamas can be seen floating above Demon Scrolls, with the colour of the hitodamas changing to match the Demon Scrolls, while purple-coloured ones can be seen floating above graves at night.<br />
* Hitodamas were the basis for the Pyreflies of the Final Fantasy X series, carried into the Kingdom Hearts series in the Underworld.<br />
* The are usually used as face faults in many anime, usually indicating depression.<br />
* In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the inhabitants of twilight-covered areas in Hyrule appear as green hitodama, referred to as "spirits" in the game.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
{{Wikipedia}}<br />
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[[Category: Japanese mythology]]<br />
[[Category: Yokai]]<br />
[[Category: Ghosts]]<br />
[[Category: Fire]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Hitodama&diff=10962Hitodama2008-05-06T21:37:26Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>[[Image:SekienHitodama.jpg|thumb|160px|right|The ''hitodama'' as illustrated by Toriyama Sekien.]]<br />
'''Hitodama''' (人魂, 人玉, Hitodama? "human soul" or "human ball") are believed in Japanese folklore to be the souls of the newly dead taking form of mysterious fireballs. <br />
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==Etymology==<br />
The word hitodama is a combination of the Japanese words hito, meaning "human", and tama, meaning "soul". <br />
Ghostly fires in Japan may also be called onibi (鬼火, onibi? "demon fire"). In Chinese they are called guǐ-huǒ (Pinyin) or gwäe-fo (Cantonese). Hitodama is the Japanese counterpart to the English "Will o' the wisp".<br />
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==Appearance==<br />
These flames supposedly appear as pale blue, some times green, spheres with long tails and are believed to be tricksters originating from fluorescent gases that can sometimes be seen above human graves.<br />
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==Behavior==<br />
Hitodama are usually said to be found near graveyards and in gloomy forests in summer time, where they are said to live. They are alleged sometimes seen close to a sick dying person as an apparition of the soul leaving the body before going to the other side. Most hitodama fade away or fall to the ground shortly after being spotted.<br />
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The tricks they are known to play on people most is leading travelers off track and thereby making them lost. Some Japanese myths consider hitodama a trick of the kitsune, employing their "fox-fire" (kitsune-bi) to lead travelers astray.<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
* The Tecmo horror series Fatal Frame shows hitodama being released from spirits that the player manages to successfully exorcise.<br />
* Hitodama is an ally of the main character Okinu (???/????) in the Ghost Sweeper Mikami anime and manga.<br />
* The characters Yomu Konpaku and Yuyuko Saigyoji in the Toho Project computer games are accompianied by hitodama. Youmu is described as a half-ghost, with her ghostly half residing outside of her human body and taking the shape of a large hitodama; whereas Yuyuko, a ghost princess, is usually seen with several small hitodama.<br />
* Hitodama are also commonly featured as minor enemies in many Japanese video games that have horror, supernatural and folkloric themes, i.e. Pocky & Rocky, Ganbare Goemon, etc.<br />
* In the Shaman King series, some spirits appear sometimes in a Hitodama-like form, most notably Amidamaru.<br />
* Hitodama is a boss fought in the Underworld in the game Legend of Mana.<br />
* In the series Inuyasha the re-animated priestess, Kikyo, is sustained by Hitodama which are harvested for her by special "soul carrier" demons.<br />
* In the video game, Okami, several hitodamas can be seen floating above Demon Scrolls, with the colour of the hitodamas changing to match the Demon Scrolls, while purple-coloured ones can be seen floating above graves at night.<br />
* Hitodamas were the basis for the Pyreflies of the Final Fantasy X series, carried into the Kingdom Hearts series in the Underworld.<br />
* The are usually used as face faults in many anime, usually indicating depression.<br />
* In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the inhabitants of twilight-covered areas in Hyrule appear as green hitodama, referred to as "spirits" in the game.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
{{Wikipedia}}<br />
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[[Category: Japanese mythology]]<br />
[[Category: Yokai]]<br />
[[Category: Ghosts]]<br />
[[Category: Fire]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Hitodama&diff=10961Hitodama2008-05-06T21:36:47Z<p>Lilith: New page: The ''hitodama'' as illustrated by Toriyama Sekien. '''Hitodama''' (人魂, 人玉, Hitodama? "human soul" or "human ball") are believed in...</p>
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<div>[[Image:SekienHitodama.jpg|thumb|160px|right|The ''hitodama'' as illustrated by Toriyama Sekien.]]<br />
'''Hitodama''' (人魂, 人玉, Hitodama? "human soul" or "human ball") are believed in Japanese folklore to be the souls of the newly dead taking form of mysterious fireballs. <br />
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==Etymology==<br />
The word hitodama is a combination of the Japanese words hito, meaning "human", and tama, meaning "soul". <br />
Ghostly fires in Japan may also be called onibi (鬼火, onibi? "demon fire"). In Chinese they are called guǐ-huǒ (Pinyin) or gwäe-fo (Cantonese). Hitodama is the Japanese counterpart to the English "Will o' the wisp".<br />
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==Appearance==<br />
These flames supposedly appear as pale blue, some times green, spheres with long tails and are believed to be tricksters originating from fluorescent gases that can sometimes be seen above human graves.<br />
<br />
==Behavior==<br />
Hitodama are usually said to be found near graveyards and in gloomy forests in summer time, where they are said to live. They are alleged sometimes seen close to a sick dying person as an apparition of the soul leaving the body before going to the other side. Most hitodama fade away or fall to the ground shortly after being spotted.<br />
<br />
The tricks they are known to play on people most is leading travelers off track and thereby making them lost. Some Japanese myths consider hitodama a trick of the kitsune, employing their "fox-fire" (kitsune-bi) to lead travelers astray.<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
* The Tecmo horror series Fatal Frame shows hitodama being released from spirits that the player manages to successfully exorcise.<br />
* Hitodama is an ally of the main character Okinu (???/????) in the Ghost Sweeper Mikami anime and manga.<br />
* The characters Yomu Konpaku and Yuyuko Saigyoji in the Toho Project computer games are accompianied by hitodama. Youmu is described as a half-ghost, with her ghostly half residing outside of her human body and taking the shape of a large hitodama; whereas Yuyuko, a ghost princess, is usually seen with several small hitodama.<br />
* Hitodama are also commonly featured as minor enemies in many Japanese video games that have horror, supernatural and folkloric themes, i.e. Pocky & Rocky, Ganbare Goemon, etc.<br />
* In the Shaman King series, some spirits appear sometimes in a Hitodama-like form, most notably Amidamaru.<br />
* Hitodama is a boss fought in the Underworld in the game Legend of Mana.<br />
* In the series Inuyasha the re-animated priestess, Kikyo, is sustained by Hitodama which are harvested for her by special "soul carrier" demons.<br />
* In the video game, Okami, several hitodamas can be seen floating above Demon Scrolls, with the colour of the hitodamas changing to match the Demon Scrolls, while purple-coloured ones can be seen floating above graves at night.<br />
* Hitodamas were the basis for the Pyreflies of the Final Fantasy X series, carried into the Kingdom Hearts series in the Underworld.<br />
* The are usually used as face faults in many anime, usually indicating depression.<br />
* In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the inhabitants of twilight-covered areas in Hyrule appear as green hitodama, referred to as "spirits" in the game.<br />
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[[Category: Japanese mythology]]<br />
[[Category: Yokai]]<br />
[[Category: Ghosts]]<br />
[[Category: Fire]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=File:SekienHiderigami.jpg&diff=10960File:SekienHiderigami.jpg2008-05-06T20:48:30Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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'''Hiderigami''' (日照り神, "god of drought") is a mythical species of yōkai in Japanese folklore that holds the power to cause droughts.<br />
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===Appearance===<br />
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According to a quote from Bencao Gangmu in the Edo period encyclopedia Wakan Sansai Zue, the Hiderigami is from sixty to ninety centimeters long, has eyes on the top of its head, and moves quickly like the wind. <br />
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In Toriyama Sekien's Illustrated One Hundred Demons from the Present and the Past, it is referred to as Hiderigami (魃, "drought") or Kanbo (旱母, "drought mother") and is drawn as a beast with one arm and one eye.<br />
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In China, the same entity is called '''Batsu''' (魃).<br />
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==Sources==<br />
{{Wikipedia}}<br />
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[[Category: Japanese mythology]]<br />
[[Category: Yokai]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Harionna&diff=10958Harionna2008-05-06T20:42:01Z<p>Lilith: Redirecting to Harionago</p>
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'''Harionago''' (Japanese: 針女子), also known as '''Harionna''' (Japanese: 針女), is a frightening female ghoul in Japanese mythology. <br />
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==Etymology==<br />
Her name literally meaning ''Barbed woman''. <br />
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==Origin==<br />
Harionago is said to wander the roads of the Japanese prefecture of Ehime on the island of Shikoku, searching for victims. <br />
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==Appearance==<br />
Harionago is said to be a beautiful woman with extremely long hair tipped with thorn-like barbs. Her hair is under her direct control, and she uses it to ensare men. When she finds a young man, she will laugh at him, and if the young man dares to laugh back, Harionago will drop her terrible, barbed hair and attack.<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
* Yura of the Hair, a hair-comb tsukumogami encountered in an early episode of Inuyasha, uses mobile hair as a weapon much like the harionago.<br />
* The character AA-Ko from Ueda Hajime's Q-Ko-Chan uses her hair as a weapon, by extending it like needles...<br />
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[[Category: Ghouls]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Harionago&diff=10956Harionago2008-05-06T20:40:27Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>[[Image:Harionago.jpg|thumb|Harionago]]<br />
'''Harionago''' (Japanese: 針女子), also known as '''Harionna''' (Japanese: 針女), is a frightening female ghoul in Japanese mythology. <br />
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==Etymology==<br />
Her name literally meaning ''Barbed woman''. <br />
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==Origin==<br />
Harionago is said to wander the roads of the Japanese prefecture of Ehime on the island of Shikoku, searching for victims. <br />
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==Appearance==<br />
Harionago is said to be a beautiful woman with extremely long hair tipped with thorn-like barbs. Her hair is under her direct control, and she uses it to ensare men. When she finds a young man, she will laugh at him, and if the young man dares to laugh back, Harionago will drop her terrible, barbed hair and attack.<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
* Yura of the Hair, a hair-comb tsukumogami encountered in an early episode of Inuyasha, uses mobile hair as a weapon much like the harionago.<br />
* The character AA-Ko from Ueda Hajime's Q-Ko-Chan uses her hair as a weapon, by extending it like needles...<br />
Hailing from Ehime prefecture on Shikoku, this female ghoul has on her head a huge and terrible mass of mobile hair, each serpentine strand tipped with a sharp, barbed hook. She is fond of tormenting and preying upon young men. Appearing on roads as a beautiful woman, she laughs derisively at whoever strikes her fancy, and if he makes the mistake of laughing back, she lets down her deadly hair and gives chase.<br />
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[[Category: Japanese mythology]]<br />
[[Category: Yokai]]<br />
[[Category: Ghouls]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Harionago&diff=10955Harionago2008-05-06T20:40:04Z<p>Lilith: New page: Harionago '''Harionago''' (Japanese: 針女子), also known as '''Harionna''' (Japanese: 針女), is a frightening female ghoul in Japanese mythology. ==Ety...</p>
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<div>[[Image:Harionago.jpg|thumb|Harionago]]<br />
'''Harionago''' (Japanese: 針女子), also known as '''Harionna''' (Japanese: 針女), is a frightening female ghoul in Japanese mythology. <br />
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==Etymology==<br />
Her name literally meaning ''Barbed woman''. <br />
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==Origin==<br />
Harionago is said to wander the roads of the Japanese prefecture of Ehime on the island of Shikoku, searching for victims. <br />
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==Appearance==<br />
Harionago is said to be a beautiful woman with extremely long hair tipped with thorn-like barbs. Her hair is under her direct control, and she uses it to ensare men. When she finds a young man, she will laugh at him, and if the young man dares to laugh back, Harionago will drop her terrible, barbed hair and attack.<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
* Yura of the Hair, a hair-comb tsukumogami encountered in an early episode of Inuyasha, uses mobile hair as a weapon much like the harionago.<br />
* The character AA-Ko from Ueda Hajime's Q-Ko-Chan uses her hair as a weapon, by extending it like needles...<br />
Hailing from Ehime prefecture on Shikoku, this female ghoul has on her head a huge and terrible mass of mobile hair, each serpentine strand tipped with a sharp, barbed hook. She is fond of tormenting and preying upon young men. Appearing on roads as a beautiful woman, she laughs derisively at whoever strikes her fancy, and if he makes the mistake of laughing back, she lets down her deadly hair and gives chase.<br />
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[[Category: Yokai]]<br />
[[Category: Ghouls]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=File:Hannya.jpg&diff=10954File:Hannya.jpg2008-05-06T20:28:26Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>[[Image:Hannya.jpg|thumb|right|Hannya]]<br />
'''Hannya''' (般若) is a popular Japanese nō theatre mask design, representing a jealous female demon. It possesses two sharp bull-like horns, glaring eyes, and a leering mouth split from ear to ear.<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
*The character Hannya in the popular manga and anime series Rurouni Kenshin wears and takes his name from this mask<br />
*Yoshimitsu from the Tekken and Soul Calibur games wears a Hannya mask in battle for some of his costumes.<br />
*Some people also get tattoos with this style and there are books showing art focused on hannya masks.<br />
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[[Category: Masks]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Gory%C5%8D&diff=10952Goryō2008-05-06T20:24:10Z<p>Lilith: New page: '''Goryo''' (御霊) are vengeance ghosts in Japanese mythology. ==Etymology== The name consists of two kanji, 御 (go) meaning honorable and 霊 (ryō) meaning soul or spirit. ==Beha...</p>
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<div>'''Goryo''' (御霊) are vengeance ghosts in Japanese mythology. <br />
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==Etymology==<br />
The name consists of two kanji, 御 (go) meaning honorable and 霊 (ryō) meaning soul or spirit.<br />
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==Behavior==<br />
Arising mainly in the Heian period, the belief was that the spirits of powerful lords, especially those who have been martyred, were capable of catastrophic vengeance, including destruction of crops and the summoning of typhoons and earthquakes.<br />
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==Powers==<br />
The only way to quell the wrath of a goryo was with the help of yamabushi, who could perform the necessary rites that would tame the spirit.<br />
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==Stories==<br />
An example of a goryo is the Shinto kami known as Tenjin. Government official Sugawara no Michizane was killed in a plot by a rival member of the Fujiwara clan. Immediately afterwards, the capital city was struck by heavy rain and lightning, and many of the leading Fujiwara died, while fires caused by lightning and floods destroyed many of their residences.<br />
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The court drew the conclusion that the disturbances were caused by Michizane's angry spirit. In order to placate him, the emperor restored all his offices, burned the official order of exile, and ordered that he be worshiped under the name Tenjin, which means 'Sky deity'. A shrine was established at Kitano. With the support of the government, it was immediately raised to the first rank of official shrines.<br />
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==References==<br />
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* Iwasaka, Michiko and Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends, Utah State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0874211794<br />
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[[Category: Ghosts]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Capirussa&diff=10951Capirussa2008-05-04T21:40:25Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>'''Capirussa''' is a creature which was supposed to live in Indië (now Indonesia), but was once seen in the Meuse River at Brielle (Brill), The Netherlands.<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
The name could be a corruption of Caperisca, a small goat-like creature. Another possibility could be a corruption of Capripus, meaning goat’s foot.<br />
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==Description==<br />
A female beast with a human face, a collar of jester’s bells, pointed flappy ears as those of a hound, goatlike paws and a dog’s plumy tail.<br />
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[[Category:Fabulous beasts]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Gazu_Hyakki_Yak%C5%8D&diff=10949Gazu Hyakki Yakō2008-05-02T23:12:45Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>'''Gazu Hyakki Yakō''' (画図百鬼夜行, "The Illustrated Night Parade of A Hundred Demons") is the first book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous Gazu Hyakki Yakō series, published ca. 1781. These books are supernatural bestiaries, collections of ghosts, spirits, spooks and monsters, many of which Toriyama based on literature, folklore, other artwork. These works have had a profound influence on subsequent yōkai imagery in Japan.<br />
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[[Category: Yokai]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Gazu_Hyakki_Yak%C5%8D&diff=10948Gazu Hyakki Yakō2008-05-02T22:41:07Z<p>Lilith: New page: Gazu Hyakki Yakō (画図百鬼夜行, Gazu Hyakki Yakō? "The Illustrated Night Parade of A Hundred Demons") is the first book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous Gazu Hyakki Yak...</p>
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<div>Gazu Hyakki Yakō (画図百鬼夜行, Gazu Hyakki Yakō? "The Illustrated Night Parade of A Hundred Demons") is the first book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous Gazu Hyakki Yakō series, published ca. 1781. These books are supernatural bestiaries, collections of ghosts, spirits, spooks and monsters, many of which Toriyama based on literature, folklore, other artwork. These works have had a profound influence on subsequent yōkai imagery in Japan.<br />
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[[Category: Yokai]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Gazu_Hyakki_Tsurezure_Bukuro&diff=10947Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro2008-05-02T22:32:24Z<p>Lilith: New page: '''Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro''' (画図百器徒然袋, "The Illustrated Bag of One Hundred Random Demons") is the fourth book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous Gazu Hyakki Ya...</p>
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<div>'''Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro''' (画図百器徒然袋, "The Illustrated Bag of One Hundred Random Demons") is the fourth book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous Gazu Hyakki Yakō series, published ca. 1781. These books are supernatural bestiaries, collections of ghosts, spirits, spooks and monsters, many of which Toriyama based on literature, folklore, other artwork. These works have had a profound influence on subsequent yōkai imagery in Japan.<br />
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[[Category: Classic literature]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Futakuchi-onna&diff=10946Futakuchi-onna2008-05-02T21:56:51Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>[[Image:futakuchi-onna.jpg|thumb|250px|An image of a futakuchi-onna from the [[Ehon Hyaku Monogatari]]]]<br />
In Japanese mythology, the '''futa-kuchi-onna''' (二口女 lit. "two-mouthed woman") is a woman afflicted with a curse or supernatural disease that transforms her into a yokai.<br />
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==Appearance==<br />
Futa-kuchi-onna are normal women who end up having two mouths - a normal one located on her face and second one on the back of the head beneath the hair. There, the woman's skull splits apart forming lips, teeth and a tongue, creating an entirely functional second mouth. Eventually the woman's hair begins to move like a pair of serpents, allowing the mouth to help itself to the woman's meals.<br />
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==Family==<br />
In Japanese mythology and folklore, the futakuchi-onna belongs to the same class of stories as the rokurokubi, kuchisake-onna and the yama-uba, women afflicted with a curse or supernatural disease that transforms them into yokai. The supernatural nature of the women in these stories is usually concealed until the last minute, when the true self is revealed.<br />
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==Origins of the second mouth==<br />
Though there are several stories linking the appearance of a futakuni-onna's second mouth to different causes, it is most often linked to how little a woman eats. The soon-to-be futakuchi-onna is usually a wife of a miser and rarely eats. To counteract this, a second mouth mysteriously appears on the back of the woman's head. The second mouth often mumbles spiteful and threatening things to the woman and demands food. While no food passes through her normal lips, the mouth in the back of her head consumes twice what the other one would. If it is not fed, it can screech obscenely and cause the woman tremendous pain. <br />
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In another story, the extra mouth is formed when a stingy woman is accidentally hit in the head by her husband's axe while he is chopping wood, and the wound never heals. Other stories have the woman as a mother who lets her stepchild die of starvation while keeping her own offspring well fed; presumably, the spirit of the neglected child lodges itself in the stepmother's body to exact revenge.<br />
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==Stories==<br />
In a small village there lived a stingy miser who, because he could not bear the expense of paying for food for a wife, lived entirely by himself.<br />
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One day he met a woman who did not eat anything, whom he immediately took for his wife. Because she never ate a thing, and was still a hard worker, the old miser was extraordinarily thrilled with her, but on the other hand he began to wonder why his stores of rice were steadily decreasing.<br />
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One day the man pretended to leave for work, but instead stayed behind to spy on his new wife. To his horror, he saw his wife’s hair part on the back of her head, her skull split wide revealing a gaping mouth. She unbound her hair, which reached out like tentacles to grasp the rice and shovel it into the hungry mouth.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[rokurokubi]]<br />
*[[kuchisake-onna]]<br />
*[[yama-uba]]<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
* The 2005 movie The Great Yokai War briefly features a futakuchi-onna.<br />
* The PC MMORPG Ragnarok Online features monsters which appear in the Amatsu dungeon known as Miyabi Dolls that appear to be based upon futakuchi-onna.<br />
* An alien in the Gantz manga is a futakuchi-onna. She is raped by one of the Osaka players before ultimately being killed by another alien.<br />
* Seen in the manga Hell Teacher Nube<br />
* Mawile, a Pokémon is based on one.<br />
* Featured in the episode "Imprint" in the American television series Masters of Horror<br />
* In the video game The Last Blade, the character Akari Ichijou uses various attacks that involve yokai. One of them is a special move that summons "a hundred yokai" that parade across the screen in a procession. A futakuchi-onna is featured in this procession.<br />
* Manga/TV anime Jigoku Sensei Nube (official site) - In this series a Futakuchi-onna is seen.<br />
*Gekka no Kenshi/Last Blade (various systems) - Akari, a young onmyouji, uses various attacks that involve youkai. One of them is a special move that summons "a hundred youkai" to parade across the screen in a happy procession, and one of the youkai is Futakuchi-onna.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
{{Wikipedia}}<br />
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==References==<br />
*[http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-futakuchi-onna.htm What is a Futakuchi-onna?]<br />
*[http://www.obakemono.com/obake/futakuchionna/ The Obakemono Project: Futakuchi-onna]<br />
*[http://www.youkaimura.org/futaku.htm Yokai Mura: Futakuchi-onna]<br />
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[[Category: Yokai]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=File:Futakuchi-onna.jpg&diff=10945File:Futakuchi-onna.jpg2008-05-02T21:56:27Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>[[Image:futakuchi-onna.jpg|thumb|250px|An image of a futakuchi-onna from the [[Ehon Hyaku Monogatari]]]]<br />
In Japanese mythology, the '''futa-kuchi-onna''' (二口女 lit. "two-mouthed woman") is a woman afflicted with a curse or supernatural disease that transforms her into a yokai.<br />
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==Appearance==<br />
futa-kuchi-onna are normal women who end up having two mouths - a normal one located on her face and second one on the back of the head beneath the hair. There, the woman's skull splits apart forming lips, teeth and a tongue, creating an entirely functional second mouth. Eventually the woman's hair begins to move like a pair of serpents, allowing the mouth to help itself to the woman's meals.<br />
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==Family==<br />
In Japanese mythology and folklore, the futakuchi-onna belongs to the same class of stories as the rokurokubi, kuchisake-onna and the yama-uba, women afflicted with a curse or supernatural disease that transforms them into yokai. The supernatural nature of the women in these stories is usually concealed until the last minute, when the true self is revealed.<br />
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==Origins of the second mouth==<br />
Though there are several stories linking the appearance of a futakuni-onna's second mouth to different causes, it is most often linked to how little a woman eats. The soon-to-be futakuchi-onna is usually a wife of a miser and rarely eats. To counteract this, a second mouth mysteriously appears on the back of the woman's head. The second mouth often mumbles spiteful and threatening things to the woman and demands food. While no food passes through her normal lips, the mouth in the back of her head consumes twice what the other one would. If it is not fed, it can screech obscenely and cause the woman tremendous pain. <br />
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In another story, the extra mouth is formed when a stingy woman is accidentally hit in the head by her husband's axe while he is chopping wood, and the wound never heals. Other stories have the woman as a mother who lets her stepchild die of starvation while keeping her own offspring well fed; presumably, the spirit of the neglected child lodges itself in the stepmother's body to exact revenge.<br />
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==Stories==<br />
In a small village there lived a stingy miser who, because he could not bear the expense of paying for food for a wife, lived entirely by himself.<br />
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One day he met a woman who did not eat anything, whom he immediately took for his wife. Because she never ate a thing, and was still a hard worker, the old miser was extraordinarily thrilled with her, but on the other hand he began to wonder why his stores of rice were steadily decreasing.<br />
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One day the man pretended to leave for work, but instead stayed behind to spy on his new wife. To his horror, he saw his wife’s hair part on the back of her head, her skull split wide revealing a gaping mouth. She unbound her hair, which reached out like tentacles to grasp the rice and shovel it into the hungry mouth.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[rokurokubi]]<br />
*[[kuchisake-onna]]<br />
*[[yama-uba]]<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
* The 2005 movie The Great Yokai War briefly features a futakuchi-onna.<br />
* The PC MMORPG Ragnarok Online features monsters which appear in the Amatsu dungeon known as Miyabi Dolls that appear to be based upon futakuchi-onna.<br />
* An alien in the Gantz manga is a futakuchi-onna. She is raped by one of the Osaka players before ultimately being killed by another alien.<br />
* Seen in the manga Hell Teacher Nube<br />
* Mawile, a Pokémon is based on one.<br />
* Featured in the episode "Imprint" in the American television series Masters of Horror<br />
* In the video game The Last Blade, the character Akari Ichijou uses various attacks that involve yokai. One of them is a special move that summons "a hundred yokai" that parade across the screen in a procession. A futakuchi-onna is featured in this procession.<br />
* Manga/TV anime Jigoku Sensei Nube (official site) - In this series a Futakuchi-onna is seen.<br />
*Gekka no Kenshi/Last Blade (various systems) - Akari, a young onmyouji, uses various attacks that involve youkai. One of them is a special move that summons "a hundred youkai" to parade across the screen in a happy procession, and one of the youkai is Futakuchi-onna.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
{{Wikipedia}}<br />
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==References==<br />
*[http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-futakuchi-onna.htm What is a Futakuchi-onna?]<br />
*[http://www.obakemono.com/obake/futakuchionna/ The Obakemono Project: Futakuchi-onna]<br />
*[http://www.youkaimura.org/futaku.htm Yokai Mura: Futakuchi-onna]<br />
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[[Category: Yokai]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=File:ShunsenFunayurei.jpg&diff=10943File:ShunsenFunayurei.jpg2008-04-29T23:00:56Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div></div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Funay%C5%ABrei&diff=10942Funayūrei2008-04-29T23:00:21Z<p>Lilith: New page: The ''funayūrei'' as depicted in Takehara Shunsen's ''Ehon Hyaku Monogatari''. '''Funayūrei''' (船幽霊, lit. "marine spirit") are spir...</p>
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<div>[[Image:ShunsenFunayurei.jpg|thumb|180px|right|The ''funayūrei'' as depicted in Takehara Shunsen's ''Ehon Hyaku Monogatari''.]]<br />
'''Funayūrei''' (船幽霊, lit. "marine spirit") are spirits found in Japanese mythology. <br />
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Funayūrei are the ghosts of people who have perished at sea. They approach people on boats and ask to borrow a ladle. If they are given a ladle, they will pour sea water into the boat until it sinks.<br />
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==References==<br />
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* Iwasaka, Michiko and Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends, Utah State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0874211794<br />
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[[Category: Ghosts]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=File:SekienEnenra.jpg&diff=10941File:SekienEnenra.jpg2008-04-29T22:56:46Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>[[Image:SekienEnenra.jpg|thumb|right|150px|An enenra as depicted in Toriyama Sekien's ''Konjaku Hyakki Shūi'']]<br />
A '''enenra''' (煙々羅, lit. "lightweight-fabric smoke") is a yōkai, or Japanese monster, that is comprised of smoke. <br />
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Enenra resides in bonfires and, when it emerges, it takes the form of a human. It is said that an enenra can only be seen by the pure of heart.<br />
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The character 羅 in the enenra's name is meant to draw a comparison between the enenra and the lofty characteristics of lightweight cloth.<br />
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[[Category: Household spirits]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Enenra&diff=10939Enenra2008-04-29T22:55:49Z<p>Lilith: New page: An enenra as depicted in Toriyama Sekien's ''Konjaku Hyakki Shūi'' A enenra (煙々羅, lit. "lightweight-fabric smoke") is a yōkai, or Japan...</p>
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<div>[[Image:SekienEnenra.jpg|thumb|right|150px|An enenra as depicted in Toriyama Sekien's ''Konjaku Hyakki Shūi'']]<br />
A enenra (煙々羅, lit. "lightweight-fabric smoke") is a yōkai, or Japanese monster, that is comprised of smoke. <br />
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Enenra resides in bonfires and, when it emerges, it takes the form of a human. It is said that an enenra can only be seen by the pure of heart.<br />
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The character 羅 in the enenra's name is meant to draw a comparison between the enenra and the lofty characteristics of lightweight cloth.<br />
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[[Category: Yokai]]<br />
[[Category: Household spirits]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=%EF%BB%BFDaidara-bocchi&diff=10938Daidara-bocchi2008-04-29T22:50:13Z<p>Lilith: New page: '''Daidara-bocchi''' (ダイダラボッチ) is a giant in Japanese mythology. ==Appearance== Daidara-bocchi is sometime described as a huge man with one eye and one leg with a straw ...</p>
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<div>'''Daidara-bocchi''' (ダイダラボッチ) is a giant in Japanese mythology.<br />
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==Appearance==<br />
Daidara-bocchi is sometime described as a huge man with one eye and one leg with a straw sandal.<br />
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==Powers==<br />
Daidara-bocchi was so enormous that his footprints are said to have created innumerable lakes, and ponds, and his strength is to blame for the current placement of many mountains and rivers. According to one legend, Daidara-bocchi once compared the weights of Mount Fuji and Mount Tsukuba on his scales, and when the latter fell down, its peak split in two.<br />
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==Beliefs==<br />
The Waraji Matsuri (Festival of Huge Straw Sandal) is a festival that takes place in September every year in Nakiri, Daio-cho, Shima-City. People throw a huge waraji (a straw sandal 3m X 1.2m) into the ocean and pray for peace as well as a rich fish harvest.<br />
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<div>The '''Ehon Hyaku Monogatari''' (絵本百物語 - Picture Book of a Hundred Stories), also called the '''Tōsanjin Yawa''' (桃山人夜話 - Night Stories of the People of Peach Mountain") is a book of images by Japanese artist [[Takehara Shunsen]], published ca. 1841. The book was intended as a followup to [[Toriyama Sekien]]'s ''Gazu Hyakki Yakō'' series. Like these books it is a supernatural [[bestiary]] of ghosts, monsters, and spirits which has had a profound influence on subsequent ''[[yōkai]]'' imagery in Japan.<br />
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==References==<br />
[http://scene5.com/yokai/database/index/b5.htm]<br />
[http://www.e-hon.ne.jp/bec/SA/Detail?refShinCode=0100000000000031725135&Action_id=121&Sza_id=B0&Rec_id=1008&Rec_lg=100813]<br />
[http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/asiaTreasures/japan/Ehon_hyakumonogatari_pic.htm]<br />
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<div>The '''Ehon Hyaku Monogatari''' (絵本百物語), also called the '''Tōsanjin Yawa''' (桃山人夜話 - Night Stories of the People of Peach Mountain") is a book of images by Japanese artist [[Takehara Shunsen]], published ca. 1841. The book was intended as a followup to [[Toriyama Sekien]]'s ''Gazu Hyakki Yakō'' series. Like these books it is a supernatural [[bestiary]] of ghosts, monsters, and spirits which has had a profound influence on subsequent ''[[yōkai]]'' imagery in Japan.<br />
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==References==<br />
[http://scene5.com/yokai/database/index/b5.htm]<br />
[http://www.e-hon.ne.jp/bec/SA/Detail?refShinCode=0100000000000031725135&Action_id=121&Sza_id=B0&Rec_id=1008&Rec_lg=100813]<br />
[http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/asiaTreasures/japan/Ehon_hyakumonogatari_pic.htm]<br />
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<div>[[Image:Chōchinobake.gif|thumb|Chōchinobake]]<br />
'''Chōchinobake''' (提灯お化け, lit. "paper lantern ghost") are spirits that belong to the family of [[tsukumogami]] in Japanese mythology. <br />
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This Japanese spirit is said to introduce into objects reaching their 100th year of existence, thus becoming animate. <br />
Chōchinobake in particular are created from the chōchin lantern, composed of bamboo and paper or silk. They are typically portrayed with one eye, and a long tongue protruding from an open mouth.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Obake]]<br />
* [[Karakasa]]<br />
* [[Tsukumogami]]<br />
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<div>[[Image:Chōchinobake.jpg|thumb|Chōchinobake]]<br />
'''Chōchinobake''' (提灯お化け, lit. "paper lantern ghost") are spirits that belong to the family of [[tsukumogami]] in Japanese mythology. <br />
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This Japanese spirit is said to introduce into objects reaching their 100th year of existence, thus becoming animate. <br />
Chōchinobake in particular are created from the chōchin lantern, composed of bamboo and paper or silk. They are typically portrayed with one eye, and a long tongue protruding from an open mouth.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Obake]]<br />
* [[Karakasa]]<br />
* [[Tsukumogami]]<br />
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<div>[[Image:Chōchinobake.jpg|thumb|Chōchinobake]]<br />
'''Chōchinobake''' (提灯お化け, lit. "paper lantern ghost") are spirits that belong to the family of [[tsukumogami]] in Japanese mythology. <br />
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This Japanese spirit is said to introduce into objects reaching their 100th year of existence, thus becoming animate. <br />
Chōchinobake in particular are created from the chōchin lantern, composed of bamboo and paper or silk. They are typically portrayed with one eye, and a long tongue protruding from an open mouth.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Obake]]<br />
* [[Yokai]]<br />
* [[Karakasa]]<br />
* [[Tsukumogami]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Ch%C5%8Dchinobake&diff=10931Chōchinobake2008-04-29T22:32:03Z<p>Lilith: New page: Chōchinobake Chōchinobake (提灯お化け, lit. "paper lantern ghost") are spirits that belong to the family of tsukumogami in Japanese mythology. ...</p>
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<div>[[Image:Chōchinobake.jpg|thumb|Chōchinobake]]<br />
Chōchinobake (提灯お化け, lit. "paper lantern ghost") are spirits that belong to the family of [[tsukumogami]] in Japanese mythology. <br />
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This Japanese spirit is said to introduce into objects reaching their 100th year of existence, thus becoming animate. Chōchinobake in particular are created from the chōchin lantern, composed of bamboo and paper or silk. They are typically portrayed with one eye, and a long tongue protruding from an open mouth.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Obake]]<br />
* [[Yokai]]<br />
* [[Karakasa]]<br />
* [[Tsukumogami]]</div>Lilithhttps://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Basan&diff=10930Basan2008-04-29T22:25:06Z<p>Lilith: </p>
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<div>[[Image:ShunsenBasan.jpg|thumb|180px|right|The ''basan'' as depicted in Takehara Shunsen's Ehon Hyaku Monogatari.]]<br />
'''Basan''' is a fowl-like bird with supernatural powers that used to live in the mountains of Iyo Province (today Ehime Prefecture).<br />
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==Appearance==<br />
According to the description on the illustration in the Ehon Hyaku Monogatar, Basan resembles a large chicken and breathes ghost-fire from its mouth. <br />
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==Behavior==<br />
During the day Basan hides itself away in bamboo groves, but at night it emerges and wanders into villages, making a strange rustling "basabasa" noise and causing people to peek out of their houses, only to find nothing there. The basan is also said to breathe fox-fire, creating eerie ghost-flames. It is, however, not known to cause any injury to humans.<br />
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<div>[[Image:ShunsenBasan.jpg|thumb|180px|right|The ''basan'' as depicted in Takehara Shunsen's Ehon Hyaku Monogatari.]]<br />
'''Basan''' is a fowl-like bird with supernatural powers.<br />
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==Appearance==<br />
According to the description on the illustration in the Ehon Hyaku Monogatar, Basan resembles a large chicken and breathes ghost-fire from its mouth. <br />
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Basan lives in the mountains of Iyo Province (today Ehime Prefecture).<br />
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==Behavior=<br />
During the day Basan hides itself away in bamboo groves, but at night it emerges and wanders into villages, making a strange rustling "basabasa" noise and causing people to peek out of their houses, only to find nothing there. The basan is also said to breathe fox-fire, creating eerie ghost-flames. It is, however, not known to cause any injury to humans.<br />
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<div>[[Image:Baku by Katsushika Hokusai.jpg|thumb|155px|right|A ''baku'' by [[Katsushika Hokusai]].]]<br />
'''Baku''' (獏 or 貘, also known as "dream eaters") are spirits found in Chinese and Japanese mythology that devour dreams and nightmares. <br />
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==Appearance==<br />
Baku is akin to [[chimera]]s, either with the head of an elephant and the body of a lion or with the head of a lion, the body of a horse, the tail of a cow, and the legs and feet of a tiger. <br />
Alternatively, they may be more pig or tapir-like creatures that range in color from black to pink. Several evil dreams are mentioned in ancient Japanese books, such as two snakes twined together, a fox with the voice of a man, blood-stained garments, a talking rice-pot, and so on.<br />
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==Behavior==<br />
Baku are generally benign creatures who aid human being s by eating [[nightmare]]s or the evil spirits that cause such dreams. Sometimes they do this unbidden, but other legends require a nightmare sufferer to awaken and call upon a baku to eat his dreams. According to some beliefs, baku can change eaten dreams to good luck. <br />
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When a dream is bad, you can speak from within the dream if you have the presence of mind, or once you wake up distraught utter the appeal, "Baku, devour this dream!" Baku will then come and eat your bad dream, leaving you to have a pleasant sleep from then on. Because of this, he is probably one of the better-known youkai, since of course parents tell their children about baku to reassure them before they go to sleep.<br />
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Other tales make the baku more troublesome, eating all dreams and thus depriving sleepers of their beneficial effects, or simply awakening sleepers and depriving them of sleep in general.<br />
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===How to Ward a Baku Off===<br />
Baku are almost always seen as beneficial, however, and pictures of the creatures are often placed in Japanese bedrooms to help ward off bad dreams (in modern times, baku toys and plush dolls may be used instead). In addition, people sometimes write the Chinese character for "baku" on pillowcases. In the Edo era, pillows with a baku depiction were sold widely.<br />
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==History==<br />
The traditional Japanese nightmare-devouring baku originates in Chinese folklore and was familiar in Japan as early as the Muromachi period (14th-15th century). Hori Tadao (2005) has described the dream-eating abilities attributed to the traditional baku and relates them to other preventatives against nightmare like the use of amulets. Kaii-Yokai Densho Database, citing a 1957 paper, and Mizuki (2004) also describe the dream-devouring capacities of the traditional baku.<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
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*In '''Pokémon''', the baku is named Drowzee ("Sleep" in the Japanese version of Pokémon)<br />
*In the '''Monster Rancher''' series, Baku is a breed of fat, dog-like monster that falls alseep fairly often.<br />
*''Bakumon'' (also known as ''Tapirmon'' in the U.S.) is a tapir-like creature who appears in the '''Digimon''' series. (Bakemon, a digimon with a similar name, is a ghost-like creature whose name probably comes from the Japanese word for ghost, bakemono<br />
*Baku are also found in '''Magic: The Gathering''' in the Japan-inspired set '''Betrayers of Kamigawa''' as the Blademane, Skullmane, Waxmane, Quillmane and Petalmane Baku. [http://gatherer.wizards.com/default.asp?term=baku&Field_Name=on&output=summary&sort=name]<br />
*Baku appear in the ''Oriental Adventures'' supplement of '''Dungeons and Dragons''', but are named "Shirokinukatsukami."<br />
*The baku appear briefly in the book '''''Sandman: The Dream Hunters''''', written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (published by DC Comics, Vertigo imprint).<br />
*"Baku" is a main character in the Playstation 2 game '''Dual Hearts''', characterized as a "pig" that eats dreams.<br />
*A baku is present in an early episode of Urusei Yatsura, eating Ataru's bad dreams as he sleeps through a student council meeting. The baku is accidentally brought into the real world when Ataru is woken prematurely.<br />
*In Klonoa: Empire of Dreams, the villain, Bagoo is based on this creature.<br />
*In '''Final Fantasy IX''', the leader of Tantalus is named Baku.<br />
*The movie '''Urusei Yatsura''' features a baku.<br />
*Neil Gaiman’s "The Dream Hunters,” which is based on Japanese mythology, features baku<br />
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==See Also==<br />
*[[Incubus (demon)]]<br />
*[[Nightmare]]<br />
*[[Shtriga]]<br />
*[[Strigoi]]<br />
*[[Strix]]<br />
*[[Succubus]]<br />
*[[Vampire]]<br />
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==Sources==<br />
*Hadland Davis F., Myths and Legends of Japan (London: G. G. Harrap, 1913)<br />
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==Links==<br />
*[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/nightmare.html Nightmare]<br />
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<div>[[Image:Baku by Katsushika Hokusai.jpg|thumb|155px|right|A ''baku'' by [[Katsushika Hokusai]].]]<br />
'''Baku''' (獏 or 貘, also known as "dream eaters") are spirits found in Chinese and Japanese mythology that devour dreams and nightmares. <br />
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==Appearance==<br />
Baku is akin to [[chimera]]s, either with the head of an elephant and the body of a lion or with the head of a lion, the body of a horse, the tail of a cow, and the legs and feet of a tiger. <br />
Alternatively, they may be more pig or tapir-like creatures that range in color from black to pink. Several evil dreams are mentioned in ancient Japanese books, such as two snakes twined together, a fox with the voice of a man, blood-stained garments, a talking rice-pot, and so on.<br />
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==Behavior==<br />
Baku are generally benign creatures who aid human being s by eating [[nightmare]]s or the evil spirits that cause such dreams. Sometimes they do this unbidden, but other legends require a nightmare sufferer to awaken and call upon a baku to eat his dreams. According to some beliefs, baku can change eaten dreams to good luck. <br />
<br />
When a dream is bad, you can speak from within the dream if you have the presence of mind, or once you wake up distraught utter the appeal, "Baku, devour this dream!" Baku will then come and eat your bad dream, leaving you to have a pleasant sleep from then on. Because of this, he is probably one of the better-known youkai, since of course parents tell their children about baku to reassure them before they go to sleep.<br />
<br />
Other tales make the baku more troublesome, eating all dreams and thus depriving sleepers of their beneficial effects, or simply awakening sleepers and depriving them of sleep in general.<br />
<br />
<br />
===How to Ward a Baku Off===<br />
Baku are almost always seen as beneficial, however, and pictures of the creatures are often placed in Japanese bedrooms to help ward off bad dreams (in modern times, baku toys and plush dolls may be used instead). In addition, people sometimes write the Chinese character for "baku" (?) on pillowcases. In the Edo era, pillows with a baku depiction were sold widely.<br />
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==History==<br />
The traditional Japanese nightmare-devouring baku originates in Chinese folklore and was familiar in Japan as early as the Muromachi period (14th-15th century).[2] Hori Tadao (2005) has described the dream-eating abilities attributed to the traditional baku and relates them to other preventatives against nightmare like the use of amulets. Kaii-Yokai Densho Database, citing a 1957 paper, and Mizuki (2004) also describe the dream-devouring capacities of the traditional baku.<br />
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==Art/Fiction==<br />
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*In '''Pokémon''', the baku is named Drowzee ("Sleep" in the Japanese version of Pokémon)<br />
*In the '''Monster Rancher''' series, Baku is a breed of fat, dog-like monster that falls alseep fairly often.<br />
*''Bakumon'' (also known as ''Tapirmon'' in the U.S.) is a tapir-like creature who appears in the '''Digimon''' series. (Bakemon, a digimon with a similar name, is a ghost-like creature whose name probably comes from the Japanese word for ghost, bakemono<br />
*Baku are also found in '''Magic: The Gathering''' in the Japan-inspired set '''Betrayers of Kamigawa''' as the Blademane, Skullmane, Waxmane, Quillmane and Petalmane Baku. [http://gatherer.wizards.com/default.asp?term=baku&Field_Name=on&output=summary&sort=name]<br />
*Baku appear in the ''Oriental Adventures'' supplement of '''Dungeons and Dragons''', but are named "Shirokinukatsukami."<br />
*The baku appear briefly in the book '''''Sandman: The Dream Hunters''''', written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (published by DC Comics, Vertigo imprint).<br />
*"Baku" is a main character in the Playstation 2 game '''Dual Hearts''', characterized as a "pig" that eats dreams.<br />
*A baku is present in an early episode of Urusei Yatsura, eating Ataru's bad dreams as he sleeps through a student council meeting. The baku is accidentally brought into the real world when Ataru is woken prematurely.<br />
*In Klonoa: Empire of Dreams, the villain, Bagoo is based on this creature.<br />
*In '''Final Fantasy IX''', the leader of Tantalus is named Baku.<br />
*The movie '''Urusei Yatsura''' features a baku.<br />
*Neil Gaiman’s "The Dream Hunters,” which is based on Japanese mythology, features baku<br />
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==See Also==<br />
*[[Incubus (demon)]]<br />
*[[Nightmare]]<br />
*[[Shtriga]]<br />
*[[Strigoi]]<br />
*[[Strix]]<br />
*[[Succubus]]<br />
*[[Vampire]]<br />
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==Sources==<br />
*Hadland Davis F., Myths and Legends of Japan (London: G. G. Harrap, 1913)<br />
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==Links==<br />
*[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/nightmare.html Nightmare]<br />
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[[Category:Household spirits]] <br />
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