Legends of Ancient Japanese Demons

This is the demon, want to understand the Japanese demon, then we recommend to go to see Koizumi Yakumo's "Weird Tales"

Bone female

Bone female

Being insulted, bullied, ravaged by a woman in life, resentment and after death, turned into a ghost to demand for life, because there is only a pile of bones left, so it will use the skin of the human to disguise themselves, called the ghost of the painting in China (from the Liaozhai Zhiqi) the object of its vengeance for the majority of males, and It is mostly male and of bad character, and is recorded in detail in the "Night Journey of the Hundred Ghosts," which is why Japanese folklorists generally use it as a research subject.

The female ghosts who are long dead but have some kind of obsession with the world, and whose souls are attached to the bones even though their bodies have long since decayed; and who are driven by that obsession to return to the world to fulfill their own wishes.

Slowly this obsession is specialized, and what circulates is the most difficult to dissolve feelings in the world; the attachment and infatuation to the lover who is still alive supports the skeleton of the deceased to come back with the soul to meet each other, and what is presented in front of the eyes of the beloved is still the appearance and voice of the person who is alive, but in the eyes of the surrounding people is the man who is embracing a pair of decayed skeletons and crying in pain... ...

See "Meiji Demon", is the resentment of some infatuated women, due to infatuation with others and can not be with their beloved person to commit suicide by jumping into the water from the bridge, if there is a man crossing the bridge at night, it will appear and lead it to the water to drown, if there is a woman crossing the bridge, it will be forced to pull it into the water, it is said that in Japan a woman can not easily commit suicide, but only by jumping into the river! , so this kind of demon is known as the more pitiful demon.

The Japanese word "Hashi-hime" is used to refer not only to the goddess of the bridge, but also to the private individuals who stood by the side of the bridge during the Edo period, and to the private individuals who lived in the "teahouses" located near the bridge grounds.

(I searched a lot of places, * did not show up, I guess it is a more evil words

Head of the barbarians

See in the "hundred ghosts of the night", in fact, is a person, but due to the possession of a demon, the head will fly away from the body in sleep, everywhere to scare people for fun, and the possession of the demon called the lord of the number of the bird's soul, usually in the body of the person who likes to kill captive birds and beasts, birds and beasts, and eat birds and beasts, was the possession of his person in seven days. The person who is possessed by him will be turned into withered bones within 7 days, which is also retribution, I guess!

The Hitouban, or long-necked demon, or rokurokubi, first appeared in Gan Bao's Sou Shen Ji (搜神记), a famous book of tales and anecdotes from the Jin Dynasty (晋代), where it was mentioned that the Rokurokubi was a long-necked demon. Normally it looks no different from an ordinary person, but at night, when all the people are asleep, the neck of the demon starts to stretch out, even longer than the neck of a giraffe, and then the head completely separates from the neck and the body, and some people have witnessed that the body is still covered with a quilt, and the person who sleeps in the bed properly, but her head is attached to the neck, and flies away from the window, and she doesn't return to her original body until the rooster crows. body, at which time the head and body will be reunited and wake up acting like a normal person. The person often does not remember what he or she saw or did the night before? When a long-necked demon takes on human form, some people do not realize that they are long-necked demons, so they are driven unconsciously. When long-necked demons fly, they eat bugs and use their ears instead of wings. The above information is extracted from "Fantasy Animal Facts" (New Era Society)

Legend has it that long-necked demons are all in the form of females, with elongated necks, so that they can roam around at night without restraint, and that they can go to the residence of a male they like, get into his bedroom, and look at him as he sleeps. Long-necked demons are also distinguished into two types, those that can wander at their own whims and fly freely, and those that cannot control where they are and float in an unconscious state.

The long-necked demon that can travel with its own thoughts is said to suck people's blood and kill them, or even gather in groups of five and act collectively, which is quite frightening! Perhaps it's a superstition, but it's said that because this kind of demon's head and body are often separated, and there are red threads wrapped around its neck, there's a saying that "a woman with red threads wrapped around her neck should never be married," for fear that she might be a long-necked demon.

As for the long-necked demon that floats in an unconscious state, if the head can return to its body successfully in the morning, it is fine; otherwise, if the head can't come back, then the long-necked demon will die and never wake up again.

Additionally, some people categorize the long-necked demons into: "the neck will stretch out at night" and "the neck will fly out after stretching out" two kinds of long-necked demons, the neck will stretch out but will not fly out of the long-necked demons are called the "windlass head" Rokurokubi, like in the windlass used in the well when the water is drawn, the head can be stretched out freely. On the other hand, the kind of demon with a long neck that flies away after extending its neck and comes back in the morning is the long-necked demon described before, and is generally called a "Flying Headed Brute". Both of them are **** alike in that they usually live like ordinary people, but at night they take on the form of a demon.

The long-necked demons that fly through the sky with their heads and bodies separated are said to suffer from a rare disease or have inherited a special constitution. There are still no conclusive answers to this question. Strangely, the same characteristics of the monster, not only in Japan, even other countries, such as mainland China, South America, Poland, there are also documented, the head will fly in the air of the monster. It is clear that long-necked demons seem to exist in this world in a real way.

How do you recognize a long-necked demon in reality? In the daytime, a long-necked demon looks just like a normal human, but there is a thin slit around its neck that looks like it has been cut, which is not obvious, but you can still see it if you look closely. In addition, if you see a long-necked demon's head flying out at night, don't panic, the way to deal with it is to swap the position of her head and feet, and then cover her with a quilt, so that the long-necked demon can't go back to its original body, and will die for sure! (This is the most common saying.) Others say they have seen that "when the head is separated from the body, there will be a drop of blood on the cross-section of the severed part of the body, which is used by the long-necked demon as a mark to return to its own body; if this drop of blood is wiped away, the long-necked demon will not be able to find its own body and will wander around until it dies. (source unknown), anyway, as long as the body can't be returned, the long-necked demon can't continue to live, and won't come out to make trouble.

There is a Soryu-monogatari story in the Edo Kekkyo Shokugeki that mentions the "spirit sickness". There was a man who worked as a guard in the country of Izayoi, and one night his wife suddenly left her chamber and went to the toilet, and after a while he saw her open the door and go out, when his wife, who had gone into the toilet earlier, came in through the door and went back to bed. At this time, a strange thing happened, just now his wife walked out of the door, suddenly came out of the woman's voice, listen carefully that is not exactly the wife's familiar voice, and then another wife who looks exactly the same, walked in from outside the door, which can be good, in front of the two are their own wives, the man was very shocked, wondering how in the world this is the case, so the two of them called the other room, and the two of them. The man thought: one of them must be a demon in disguise to make trouble, hey ~ I can not be so easily fooled!

Flying head brute less stick a word .......)

The next morning, he found his neighbors to help identify the two, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't find any flaws, as if they were replicas, the features on the two were exactly the same, whether it was the expression of their speech, or their mannerisms, they all looked as if they were made from the same mold. Later, a man pointed to one of them and said, "This one looks a bit strange," so the man drew his katana and cut off her head on the spot. As a result, the dead wife did not have any changes in her body, nor did she regain her original form as a demon, but remained in the same condition as she had been before she was born. "This is strange, could it be that the other one is the real demon?" The man was already a little bit confused, he took the knife in his hand and cut down the head of the other wife, the result was still the same, there was no change in her body, proving that she was a human being, that's good! The man killed two wives in a row, neighbors and onlookers looked dumbfounded, but not long to help take care of the aftermath, buried the two women, after a few days, their bodies still have not changed, the man really can not do anything, feel remorseful, and then someone told him that his wife may be a strange disease, that is, the "spirit of the disease".

There is a kind of evil art in the South China Sea which is very similar to the story of "Flying Head", that is "Flying Head Drop" in the art of subduing head, and I would like to send it out for you to compare and contrast--

The art of subduing head is a kind of evil art which is better than "Flying Head", which is better than "Flying Head". There are more than ten kinds of flying spells, such as "Mirror Drop", "Glass Drop", "Animal Drop (Snake, Bat, Centipede, etc.)", "Flying Head Drop", etc., and "Flying Head Drop" is the most powerful among them. The difference between the flying head drop and the medicine drop is that the flying head drop only needs to take anything on the body of the other party, such as clothes, shoes and socks, ornaments, or the eight characters of the birthdate to cast the spell, and even in the head of the descending to talk to him, take what he gave him (Reminder: to the "New Malaysia and Thailand" travelers must not be greedy for small gains, and casually accept souvenirs of unknown origins), and even in the head of the descending to speak to the head of the descending, and take the things he gave (Reminder: to "New Malaysia and Thailand" travelers must not be greedy for small gains, and casually accept souvenirs of unknown origins). unknowingly fall into the subjugation technique. The medicine must be eaten into the body to be effective. There have been people due to stomach pain, sent to the hospital for treatment, actually found that his stomach is full of glass, only to realize that in the unknowing was dropped "glass drop", as for how the glass into the stomach, it is really mind-boggling!

The most vicious technique is "flying head down", usually have this sorcery sorcerer, only at night will come out to do harm, during the day and ordinary people are no different, when the night comes, the head of his head of the sorcerer and the body to separate, flying around, looking for the fetus and other people's blood sucking. Legend has it that the fetus is condensed by the blood of yin and yang, the more you suck, not only can prolong your life, but also the magic power will be more powerful. "This kind of spell is not good for practicing, and those who practice it can easily lose their lives. Most of the people who practice this kind of spell have deep hatred and want to take revenge, so they have this kind of courage and perseverance which is not afraid of death.

The practice of "Flying Head Drop" requires at least seven times of practice to be completed, and each time it takes seventy-nine days. During the practice period, one has to suck blood every night, just like the vampires in the West, and if there is a day when one doesn't suck blood, all the previous work will be finished, and there is no chance to repeat the practice again. So in his more than three hundred days of practice, every night the head will fly out, meet people sucking human blood, meet dog sucking dog blood, all the poultry and animals can not escape, can not be defended, very scary.

The people who have not yet practiced, when the head leaves the head, even the intestines will follow along with the drag out, the local people in order to prevent the flying head descenders to suck blood, on the roof of the installation of anti-theft thorns or planting thorny plants, due to the flying head descenders to fly out of the head, usually not taller than three meters, and dragging the intestines and long, in the past the roof, it is likely that they will be barbed, intestines, once stabbed, the head can not go back to the original place, wait until the dawn of the day. Once the intestines are pierced, the head can no longer return to its original place, and when dawn comes, the flying head will turn into a piece of black blood and disappear; and the descending head master will only be left with a puddle of blood and water. However, if you meet a truly accomplished head-butcher, his head will not be attached to his intestines and organs, and he will be able to fly over the roof to avoid the barbs and pass through without any problem. In order to eliminate this kind of head-butcher, you have to rely on the masters who are better than him, and only by breaking his magic spells when he is practicing will you be able to subdue him.

The Zashiki Kid, a playmate attached to your home

This slightly more Japanese-style goblin. It attaches itself to the home as a child, and legend has it that as long as a Zashiki child is present, the family will prosper. If you see familiar faces among your playmates, but you feel like there's one more than when you started, it's probably because of it. Zashiki is a very honest demon that can only be seen by children. Because of this, some selfish families often invite a powerful magician to trap them in a knot and control their freedom. Legend has it that you should never annoy the Zashiki Kid or you will ......

Aoyagi:

Specifically, it is not a demon, but more of a storytelling act like the Decameron: most of Japan's weird stories also take place on summer nights. Much of the storytelling in the traditional Japanese theater of Kabuki has its roots in the legends of strange tales, and in the Edo period (equivalent to 1603-1867 CE) there was also a game called "Hyakunomori," in which a few friends would get together in the middle of the night, light up a number of candles, and all take turns telling ghost stories to get a sense of the horrific atmosphere. It is said that when the hundredth candle is extinguished, the real ghost will appear ...... So often the storytellers will have a warning in their mind that when it is their turn to tell a story, they must not be the last one, because they don't know what will happen when they finish the hundredth story. So every time they reach the ninety-ninth story, they stop immediately, and no one dares to continue, which is a collective ritual to summon the ghosts. The origin of "Hyakki" and how it is played is described in detail in the book "Gamemaiden", written by a writer of the Edo period, Asai Shiki, and is summarized as follows: Before the game of "Hyakki" is played, all the participants are dressed in green clothes and gather in a dark room. In the room next to the dark room, blue paper lanterns are prepared and filled with enough oil, and a hundred wicks are lit and placed side by side. A small wooden table with a mirror was placed next to the lamps. After each person has taken a turn to tell a strange story, he or she must leave his or her seat and walk in the dark to the next room where the lamps are lit, and blow out one of the wicks. Then, he had to look at his own face in the mirror before returning to the dark room and being replaced by the next person. During the process of blowing out the wicks, the same strange stories continue to be told, until after the ninety-ninth strange story is finished, the last wick is left, so it is left to continue to be lit, and then everyone continues to sit around and wait for the dawn until the sun comes out, and then each person is dismissed to go home. Many people do not understand why strange stories are always told to the ninety-nine on the end, because at that time the people were very superstitious that if the hundredth strange story, what will happen to the strange things, so no one dares to touch this taboo. With the change of time, candles were used instead of lanterns, and the new rule of the game was that the last candle had to be blown out, so the Hundred Thing Game became a horrible weird story club, and it was said that when the last candle was blown out, some strange things did happen. Toriyama Ishiyan's painting "Aojiru" is included in the "Painting a Hundred Ghosts Night Journey", which depicts the scene of Hyakumonogatari at that time. When the Aojiru was about to be blown out, many funny and interesting stories about monsters and demons were being told in a group of people's mouths, and some people recorded them in writing, which is the origin of the monsters and demons Hyakumonogatari. Oh, we have to play this game in the future, do not tell the hundredth ghost story, when it will become true it

The legend of the demons and monsters in ancient China -

About four thousand years ago, the two emperors of the Yellow Emperor fight for the world, the son of the Emperor of the Yan Emperor Chiyu was captured, to do the Yellow Emperor's an attendant, and later found an opportunity to escape. However, the emperor is already old and weak, and can not bear to let the people suffer because of their own war, did not listen to Chi You's advice. Chi You had to go to start his brothers, and called the south of the Miao people, as well as the mountains, forests, water and swamps between the spirits and monsters and other ghosts and monsters, led the army, under the banner of the Yan Emperor, to the Yellow Emperor launched a challenge. The yellow emperor heard Chi launched an army also could not help but be surprised, he wanted to Shi Yan Yi probation Chi, but Chi was not probation, the two sides in the deer started a big battle. Chiyu use of magic, put out a poisonous mist array, the yellow emperor's army surrounded. However, the Yellow Emperor drove the guide car invented by the strategist Feng Hou, and commanded the army to break out of the poisonous mist formation. Chi You again sent demons and monsters to fight, but the Yellow Emperor told his soldiers to use bullhorn trumpets to blow out the sound of dragons, scaring away the demons and monsters.

This shows that the demons and monsters, whether in ancient times or now refers to some of the miscellaneous small demon, passed to Japan, but became famous, it is said that the demons and monsters specialize in eating beautiful women, the appearance of most of the tall, red body, pointy ears, head with long horns as the main characteristics of the Japanese folklore in the wilderness and no one in the mountains, the mountains under the four wild and more ancient forests. Long-distance walkers, especially those who walk at night, often encounter golems, ghosts, spirits and monsters, are wood, stone, birds and animals into

Ghosts a bite

In Takahashi Yasuke's school of strange stories appeared, just like some kind of deep-sea fish in front of the head of the glowing bait, the beautiful girl is a ghost in front of the head of the bait, long in the long tongue, made a miserable soon to be devoured to lure people to come to her rescue, then eat the person. eat the person.

Kawakiri

In Japan, near the Inari River Shrine have a small lake, the name of the lake to save the body, the lake often appear Kawakiri, because the Kawakiri in Japan is a household name, so there are a lot of sayings, the more common is: the bird's head human body with a tortoise shell, the top of the head there is a bowl-shaped concave mirror, inside the full of water, such as its life, the water without is dead, hands are connected to the stretch, can be a fart to fly the power of the sky. In the "one hundred ghosts night", "one hundred things", "ten thousand ghosts book", "monster story" ...... often seen in the folklore books are recorded.

Origin of the Kappa

The legend says that "Kappa" live in rivers or pools all over Japan. According to the research data of Junichiro Ishikawa, a folklorist, the legend of the Kappa is widely distributed, including the Tohoku region, the Chubu region, the Kinki region, the Kansai region of Ishikawa ‧ Toyama Prefecture, the Chugoku region, the Shikoku region, the Kitakyushu region, the Saga ‧ Kyushu region and Amami Prefectures. Miyazaki Prefecture, Amami Islands and Okinawa Prefecture, and depending on the dialect of each region, the name of the Kappa is different. ***The common point is that they are called "Kappa" because they are "children who live in the river". Originally, Kappa was a spirit of the water and was worshipped as a river god, but there is also a theory that Kappa is a messenger of the water god and is transformed by the frost that the god sends down.

On the origin of the river children, there are the following two stories for reference:

One, the river children to say

The legend of the river children, the earliest origin from the upper reaches of the Yellow River Basin in China, was called the "Water Tiger," also known as the "He Bo" in ancient times. At the beginning of the Warring States period, in Yecheng County of the State of Wei, this place. Every year when the rainy season came, the river would swell and flood, often claiming many lives and properties. The local witch used the excuse of "He Bo taking a wife" to conspire with the officials to amass huge amounts of money, and young women had to be sacrificed to please He Bo. It was not until a new magistrate named Ximen Bao came to Yecheng County that the superstition of "He Bo taking a wife" was dispelled, and later references to "He Bo taking a wife" naturally brought to mind the typical story of resistance to tyranny by outsmarting the enemy.

The legend of "Kappa" spread to Japan, where it became known as "Kappa Kodo" (河童). It is said that a leader named Kujenbo led a clan of Kappa from China to a place in Kyushu along the Kuma River and Unzen Hot Springs and stayed there. He caused a lot of trouble in the village by leading his men, and the village people were unable to defeat him because of his strange power of pulling a horse to the edge of the river. Kato Kiyomasa, the lord of Kumamoto Castle, who was furious about this, used the Saru, which Kappa hated the most, to teach him a lesson, and from then on, Kappa had to live obediently in Chikugo River in Kumamoto Prefecture. He later became the messenger of Suitengu Shrine, whose branch office was located at the mansion of the Arima family on the bank of the Akabane River in Edo, (Kurume Highness) which was later moved to the vicinity of Nihonbashi.

It is said that Kato Kiyomasa, in order to defeat Kuchinbo, lured Kappa to the Jigokudani Valley, which spewed out sulphurous gas, and not only poisoned the river, but also threw burning stones into the pool, and finally gathered the mountain monkeys which Kappa hated the most, and attacked them in a group, and Kuchinbo, because of the heat from the sulphur, made the water in the pan on his head gradually disappear, and he, with his magical powers, was finally captured, and had to beg the lord of the castle to let him off, and promised to This is one of the legends of Kappa. (Note: Kato Kiyomasa Japanese Azuchi-Momoyama era of military generals, as a child had followed the Toyotomi Hideyoshi will transport, and Shibata Katsura battle to the death when the show its superior martial arts, in the original battle of the battle of the battle of the campaign defected to Tokugawa Ieyasu, after the war became the Kumamoto Castle City, known for its courage and good fighting and castle construction.)

The second theory is the humanization of Kappa

Legend has it that when these craftsmen built shrines and temples or cities in the Edo period (1603-1867), there was an incantation in which they wrote the names of the people on slips of paper and then stuffed the slips of paper into the cracks of wood or into human figures (i.e., dolls) tied with grass, and the action was called "calling the soul. This action is called "calling the soul" and it is said that buildings will be built stronger and more securely. The unused figures are then thrown into the river, and the cursed figures are later transformed into kappa (river children), which are a threat to animals and people. In addition, Abe Haruaki, who was known as a yin and yang master, used paper human figures (shinigami) that were sent by the gods to help him carry out his work. Later, when some people were afraid of the shinigami, Abe Haruaki had to seal the shinigami under a back bridge in Kyoto, and it is said that the river children were the descendants of these shinigami.

In the same way that Yin-Yang masters invoke the Shikigami, warlocks can make a person sick or even dead if they work on the victim's name, hair, or clothing. And they can also steal his soul essence and make it serve them. China's Qing Dynasty also happened to "call the soul" of sorcery: Deqing County, Zhejiang Province, in order to build bridges, the need to drive wooden piles into the bottom of the river, so the stonemasons borrowed the name of a living person to write on a piece of paper, pasted on the top of the piles ready to be the base of the bridge, and then vigorously knocked down the mallet, which would add some kind of spiritual power to the impact of the sledgehammer. Because of the wooden pile is difficult to hit the bottom of the river, if the use of the art of calling the soul can make the bridge pier solid and lasting rumors spread, causing great panic among the people of the Jiangnan area, everyone is in danger, vowed to spread the demonic magic of the person to death, the magistrates of the era of the Emperor Ganlong, it took a lot of work to suppress the panic of the disturbed people down. (Refer to the book "Calling for Souls" published by Shiying)

Characteristics of the Hetong

The whole body: about 60 centimeters to 1 meter tall, weighing only about 45 kilograms, belonging to the skinny body type, looking like a child between 3 and 10 years of age, and looking like a human or an ape. They are not easy to catch because they emit a foul odor and have mucus on their bodies, and the ones seen in some places are said to have hair all over their bodies.

Arms and legs: arms can move flexibly from side to side, and if cut off, they will grow back again, with strong regenerative ability (the cut off arms can be made into a special medicine for bruises). The arms and legs look like human beings, but they are especially slender, and they can be used for paddling in normal times, but only have four fingers, and the arms and legs can be retracted into the shell of the tortoise.

Head: cloaked hair, a disk-shaped depression in the center of his head, powerful when filled with water, and the mana disappears when the water is poured out, some say his head is red, others say it is dark blue.

Eyes: The eyes are round, glowing and sharp.

Nose: The nose is protruding like a dog's while having a keen sense of smell.

Mouth: looks like a human mouth, or some look like a bird's beak, with four sharp teeth at the top and bottom of the mouth, which tear through food rather quickly.

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I personally think that this is a fairly complete one that can be found in China