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Bakemono no e (化物之繪, "Illustrations of Supernatural Creatures"), also known by its alternate title Bakemonozukushie (化物尽繪, "Illustrated Index of Supernatural Creatures"), is a Japanese handscroll of the Edo period depicting 35 bakemono from Japanese folklore.
Traité sur les apparitions des esprits et sur les vampires ou les revenans de Hongrie, de Moravie, &c. (Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants of Hungary, Moravia, et al.) is one of the many works by an Abbot monk named Antoine Augustin Calmet, an exegete and an 18th-century Lorraine scholar of the Benedictine Order; also known as Dom Calmet.
Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀ (lit. ' The Brave Hunter in the Forest of 400 Deities ') is the first novel written by the Yorùbá author D.O. Fágúnwà.It was published by the Church Missionary Society Bookshop, Lagos in 1938 and is one of the first novels written in Yorùbá [1] It tells the story of the adventures of the hunter Akara-Ogun.
Corresponding to its contemporary prominence in "national superstitions", the fetch appeared in Irish literature starting in early 19th century. "The fetch superstition" is the topic of John and Michael Banim's Gothic story "The Fetches" from their 1825 work Tales by the O'Hara Family [13] and Walter Scott used the term in his Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, published in 1830, in a brief ...
Ghost stories (and prints) appeared because of this period's repression and restrictions, and were "metaphorical social commentaries". Ghost stories were a way for the people to express themselves during these restrictive times. The popularity of ghost stories in the Edo period was "an indication of a larger social movement at hand". [5]
For many people, the word “ghost” conjures up one of two images: A menacing apparition that terrorizes unsuspecting homeowners, or a cute trick-or-treater covered in a white bed sheet.
Ugetsu Monogatari is one of the best-known and most highly regarded kaidan-shu, collections of supernatural or ghost stories that became popular in Japan during the Edo period. [5] It utilizes elements from all three primary types of kaidan : adaptations of Chinese stories, Buddhist ghost stories, and Japanese folk-tales.
These words are often translated as "ghost", but primarily they refer to living things or supernatural beings who have taken on a temporary transformation, and these bakemono are distinct from the spirits of the dead. [1] However, as a secondary usage, the term obake can be a synonym for yūrei, the ghost of a deceased human being. [2]