Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Rokurokubi (ろくろ首, 轆轤首) is a type of Japanese yōkai (apparition). They look almost completely like humans with some differences. There is a type whose neck stretches and another whose head detaches and flies around freely (nukekubi). The Rokurokubi appear in classical kaidan (spirit tales) and in yōkai works. [1]
A red cow involved in the construction of the Enzō-ji temple in Yanaizu, Fukushima. Aka Manto A ghost in a red or blue mantle that offers either red or blue toilet paper rolls in bathrooms, then kills whoever answers based on their choice: flaying for red, strangulation for blue. Akaname A spirit that licks off filth in untidy bathrooms. Akashita
All Japanese ghosts are called yūrei, and there are several types within this classification. However, a given ghost may be described by more than one of the following terms, as the following terms are used differently depending on which elements of a ghost's characteristics are focused on:
Mikoshi-nyūdō (見越し入道 or 見越入道) is a type of bald-headed yōkai "goblin" with an ever-extending neck. In Japanese folklore and Edo period (1603–1868) kaidan "ghost story" texts, mikoshi-nyūdō will frighten people who look over the top of things such as byōbu folding screens. [1]
Also, the Japanese ghost character "閠" (lower part is "玉") is thought to be a misspelling for "閏" (lower part is "王"). (A 16th-century manuscript of the Japanese 15th-century Wagokuhen also has the character "閠", but it is a solitary example.) On the other hand, the Chinese character in China "閠" is a kind of variant of "閏", which ...
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami hosted a ghost story reading event in Tokyo amid growing attention before the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, an award he is a perennial ...
Japanese bathroom ghosts (5 P) R. Reportedly haunted locations in Japan (4 P) Pages in category "Japanese ghosts" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of ...
The Red Ghost terrorized the Arizona frontier for a decade before the 20 th century. The beast was tall, fierce, red as the fires of hell and ridden by a dead man. That sort of thing causes chills ...