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About Japanese Demons

Cat Demon: It is said that cats have nine lives, when a cat is raised to nine years it will grow a tail, every nine years to grow a tail, has been growing nine, when there are nine cats after another nine years will take on human form, this time the cat is the real life of nine, also known as the cat demon with nine lives in China.

Rain Lady: On a rainy day, a woman stands in the rain, and if a man smiles at her at this time, signaling her to **** with an umbrella, then she will follow him forever. After that, the man will live in a humid environment all the time, and since it is difficult for ordinary people to resist such heavy humidity, they will die soon.

Kawaguchi: In Japan, near the Inari River Shrine are a small lake, the name of the rescue body lake, the lake often appear Kawaguchi, because Kawaguchi in Japan is a household name, so there are a lot of sayings, the more common is: bird head with a 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 connected to the stretchable, can be a fart power flying to the sky. It is recorded in often seen folklore books such as "One Hundred Ghosts Night Journey", "One Hundred Things", "Ten Thousand Ghosts Book" and "Monster Story".

Ghost Bite: Appeared in Takahashi Yasusuke's Gakuen Weird Tales, like that glowing decoy in front of the head of some kind of deep-sea fish, the Beauty is the decoy in front of the Ghost's head that grows on it's long tongue, making a miserable face of being about to be devoured to lure people to come to her rescue, and then devouring them.

Kurotsuka: Also known as the corpse-stealing ghost, see The Hundred Ghosts of the Night. It is a ghost that moves in the graveyard, it will steal the body of a person who has just died recently and send it to its home to scare people, it is a ghost that likes to play pranks, and sometimes it will only cut off a certain part of the body, so some people also call it the ghost of the decapitated corpse.

The Green Lantern: from the "One Hundred Ghosts of the Night" (Japan), the earliest legend is in the Edo period in Japan, it is said that the appearance is different, but are very scary ghosts and monsters, he was not a person, but the hell of the little ghosts, often wandering around the door of the Underworld, will turn into a familiar appearance of the people abetting the people to play a kind of game called One Hundred Ghosts of the night (One Hundred Ghosts of the Night), (One Hundred Ghosts of the lamp is to light 100 white candles, and then we are in turn) The 100th story is told by the person who hosts the game, and when the last candle is extinguished, all the participants will be taken to hell.) The game pulls people into ghosts, so it is called a dangerous demon in Japan (Japan considers ghosts to be an offshoot of the gods, and therefore describes a lot of things as monsters).

The Zashiki Kid: This is a good ghost that often plays with small children, so if you have a small child who is laughing and running around as if someone is playing with him, then he is playing with the Zashiki Kid.

Yuki-no-Mikoto: living in the mountains, almost like a human being, has a beautiful appearance, often attracts the man who enters the snowy mountains to a place where no one is, and he kisses, and kissing at the same time, will be completely frozen, and take their souls to eat, the snow girl's child is called Yuki-no-Kodo, and in Japan is considered that Yuki-no-Kodo is the demon who brings the first snow of the winter.

Drowning Lady: a demon that frequents hot spring inns, if you see a bath soaking this beauty, don't approach her hastily, maybe she will stand up and you will realize that the part of her submerged in water is full of skeletons!

Bone woman: the woman who was insulted, bullied, and ravaged in life, and died of resentment, transformed into a ghost to demand life from people, because only a pile of bones left, so they will use human skin to disguise themselves, called the ghost of the painted skin in China (from "Liaozhai Zhiyi") which retaliated against the object of the majority of males, and most of them are of poor character, in the "Night of the Hundred Ghosts" there are more detailed records, so the Japanese folklorists generally use it to do research

Bone girl: the object of revenge for most males, and most of them are bad characters, there are more detailed records, so the Japanese folklorists generally use it to do research.

Flying head barbarians: in the "hundred ghosts of the night", in fact, is a person, but due to the demon possessed, the head will fly away from the body in sleep, everywhere to scare people for fun, and the demon possessed by the name of the kingpin, is a kind of bird's soul, usually attached to the people who like to kill captive birds and animals, birds and animals, eat birds and animals, the person who is possessed by him in seven days will become dead bones, which is also the retaliation! ......

Red Leaf Hunting: In ancient times, people called viewing red leaves in the wild mountains in the fall "Red Leaf Hunting", and it was an activity valued by people from the court down to the common people. Japanese people preferred the feeling of vitality of "maple leaves redder than February flowers", and when viewing the red leaves, you can often only look out, can not quietly gaze at the red leaves, and legend has it that the color of the red leaves is the maple ghosts of the blood stained red. It is said that the color of the red leaves is red with the blood of the maple ghost, and that the anniversary of the death of the maple ghost is the day after the Red Leaf Festival.

Fox Fire: According to the "Snow Spectrum of Northern Vietnam," foxes spit fire from their mouths. However, if you look closely, it is the gas exhaled by the fox that burns in the air. There are many different stories about foxfire, for example, the "Wonders of the Fox" records the stories of various places, one says that foxes emit fire by holding the bones of horses in their mouths, and the local story in Minokuni is that foxfire is emitted by igniting the toenails of the horses. People who see "fox fire" at night are likely to be lost or have lost something, and some may even turn into foxes. There is no better way to explain all these incredible phenomena other than the fact that they are caused by foxes.

There is also said that the fox fire is the demonic magic of the foxes and monsters that have become fertilized, from the tail when they are in the posture of foxes, and from the fingertips when they are in the posture of human beings, but they are all bluffs and blindfolds

Manchu Demon Concubine: The Manchu Demon Concubine is the Emperor's favorite consort at the end of the Nara Period, and she is very beautiful, and she is the most beautiful woman in her generation. Just because of the Emperor's side of another favorite consort Fujiwara Genkata's daughter Yuji's jealousy, good at waka and Chinese poetry, the Japanese dynasty culture cultivated the blossoming of Emperor Murakami's biggest wish is to get an heir as early as possible, but the sky does not meet the wishes of man, his harem of 3,000 beauties was not even one of them pregnant with a dragon seed - therefore, who can give birth to the first son of the Emperor became the most concerned about things in the court! Therefore, whoever would give birth to the first son became the most important concern of the court, so when the first son was born, Yu Ji imprisoned her and killed the baby and fed it to the dogs. The princess went mad and died suddenly three years later. She wrote a curse in her blood before she died, and after that, although she gave birth to Prince Gwanghei, she also died suddenly and prematurely. It is said that before Prince Guangping's death, a woman who looked very much like Princess Buncheon was seen in Prince Guangping's mansion. ......

Smoke Rororu: The demon of fireworks, which can make one's sight unclear, originated from the human's fear of fireworks.

Rojo Gate Demon: has a face that scares people, but is a god, it is a demon that guards the gate, but once in a while it will do a little mischief that scares people half to death, they watch the gate not for people, but to bring those ghosts and monsters that trespass on human habitation by mistake on the right path ......

Guwabo: a child that dies Transformed by a pregnant woman, steals other people's children to raise, very afraid of dogs.

Flying Edge Demon: a voluptuous demon that sucks people's essence