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  2. Bakeneko - Wikipedia

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    In this story, the bakeneko took the shape of Nabeshima Katsushige's wife and sought Katsushige's life, but his retainer, Chibu Honuemon, slew it. However, after that the Chibu family was unable to produce a male heir because of the cat's curse. It is said that the bakeneko was deified at the shrine of Shūrinji (now Shiroishi Town) as a ...

  3. Kaibyō - Wikipedia

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    Kaibyō (怪猫, "strange cat") [1] are supernatural cats in Japanese folklore. [2] Examples include bakeneko, a yōkai (or supernatural entity) commonly characterized as having the ability to shapeshift into human form; maneki-neko, usually depicted as a figurine often believed to bring good luck to the owner; and nekomata, referring either to a type of yōkai that lives in mountain areas or ...

  4. Urdu literature - Wikipedia

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    Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).

  5. A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse - Wikipedia

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    A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse (Japanese: 怪猫トルコ風呂, Hepburn: Kaibyō Toruko furo) is a 1975 Japanese erotic horror film directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi. [2] [3] More specifically, it belongs to the kaibyō eiga or bakeneko mono subgenre of horror films, in which the spirit of a vengeful woman manifests in the form of a "Monster cat" or "ghost cat", [4] as happens in this film.

  6. Jeelani Bano - Wikipedia

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    Jeelani Bano was born on 14 July 1936 in Badayun, [1] in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to Hairat Badayuni, [2] a known Urdu poet. [3] After her schooling, she enrolled for intermediate course when she married Anwar Moazzam, a poet of repute and a former head of the Department of Islamic Studies at the Osmania University and shifted to Hyderabad. [4]

  7. Pakistani literature - Wikipedia

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    Pakistani literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ پاکستان) is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947, emerging out of literary traditions of the South Asia. [1] The shared tradition of Urdu literature and English literature of British India was inherited by

  8. The Tale of the Four Dervishes - Wikipedia

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    ' The Story of Four Dervishes '), known as Bāgh-o Bahār (باغ و بہار, lit. ' Garden and Spring ') in Urdu, is a collection of allegorical stories by Amir Khusro written in Persian in the early 13th century. While legend says that Amir Khusro was the author, the tales were written long after his death.

  9. Talk:Bakeneko - Wikipedia

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    Bakeneko; I suggest a merging with bakeneko. I agree with this; I'm researching the subject right now and there really is no appreciable difference between the two; a nekomata is just what a bakeneko is called when its tail is forked. Kotengu 05:11, 18 December 2006 (UTC) There are now two redundant "in popular culture" sections.