How many kinds of monsters or gods are there in Japan?

Cat demon: It is said that cats have nine lives. After nine years, a tail will grow, one every nine years, and nine tails will grow all the time. When the cat with nine lives becomes human nine years later, it really has nine lives. In China, it is also called the Nine-Life Cat Demon.

Rain girl: On a rainy day, a woman stood in the rain. If a man smiles at her and signals her to use an umbrella, she will always follow him. From then on, this man will live in a humid environment forever, because ordinary people can't resist such heavy humidity, so he will die soon.

Hetong: There is a small lake near the Inagawa Shrine in Japan, called Salvation Lake. River children often appear in the lake. Because the river boy is a household name in Japan, there are many sayings. It's more common for a bird-headed man to wear tortoise shells and have a bowl-shaped concave mirror on his head, which is full of water. If he is alive, no water will die. His hands are connected, they can stretch, and they can fly with the help of fart. Common folk books are recorded, such as Night of the Hundred Ghosts, Pepsi Record, Record of Ten Ghosts, Legend of the Monster and so on.

Ghost Bite: I appeared in tales of mystery. The college introduced by Hiroshi Takahashi is like a glowing bait before the head of a deep-sea fish. Beauty is the bait in front of the ghost head, which grows on its long tongue to lure people to save her and then eat them.

Kurosaka: Also known as the corpse thief, see "A Hundred Ghosts Walking at Night". It's a ghost who lives in a cemetery. It steals the bodies of people who have just died and sends them to their homes to scare people. It is a kind of ghost who likes practical jokes and sometimes only cuts off a certain part of his body, so some people call it a corpse ghost.

Blue Lantern Story: It is from "A Hundred Ghosts Walking at Night" (Japan). The earliest legend is in the Edo period in Japan. It is said that they are all ghosts with different shapes but very terrible. He was not a man, but a little devil in hell. He often wanders around the gate of the underworld, and will become a familiar person, teaching people to play a game called Hundred Ghost Lanterns. (Ghost Lantern: refers to the white candle of 100. Blow out a candle every time you finish one. The100th story was told by the host. When the last candle goes out, all the players in the game will be taken to hell), so it is called a dangerous monster in Japan (Japan thinks that ghosts are a branch of God, so many things are called monsters).

Zuo Fu boy: This is a good ghost who often plays with children. If your child is laughing and running around as if someone is playing with him, then he is playing with Zuo Fu boy.

Snow Girl: Living in the deep mountains, she has a beautiful appearance almost like human beings. She often attracts men who enter the snow-capped mountains to places where no one is there and kisses him. When kissing, she will completely freeze them, take away her soul and eat them. Snow Girl's child is called Xue Tong. In Japan, Xue Tong is considered as the monster that brings the first snow in winter.

Drowning daughter: a monster frequented by hot spring hotels. If you see this beautiful woman taking a bath, don't approach her rashly. Maybe when she stands up, you'll find that her submerged part is full of bones!

Bone girl: a woman who was insulted, bullied, ravaged and resentful at birth and turned into a spectre for life. Because there was only a pile of bones left, she disguised herself with human skin. In China, she is called a ghost painter (from Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio). Most of her revenge targets are men, and most of them are bad people. It is recorded in detail in the Night of the Hundred Ghosts, so Japanese folklorists.

Flying Head Man: Actually, it's a person, but because he is possessed by a monster, his head will fly away from him when he sleeps, scaring people everywhere for fun. This possessed monster, Xiao Hao, is the soul of a bird, usually attached to people who like to kill and eat birds and animals. The person possessed by him will become a skeleton in seven days, which is also karma. ...

Red Leaf Hunting: In ancient times, people called it "Red Leaf Hunting". Watching red leaves in the wild mountains in autumn is an activity that people from court to ordinary people attach great importance to. Japanese people prefer the vitality of "Maple Leaf Red in February", but when looking at the red leaves, they can only look out and can't stare quietly. It is said that the color of red leaves is dyed red with the blood of maple ghosts. The deathday of the maple ghost is the day after the Red Leaf Festival.

Fox fire: According to the snow spectrum of North Vietnam, foxes will spit out fire from their mouths. But, look carefully, it is the gas exhaled by the fox that burns in the air. There are different opinions about fox fire. For example, "Anecdotal Stories" is recorded all over the world, saying that a fox shot with a horse bone in his mouth. The local saying in Mino is that the horse's toenails are lit to make a fox fire. People who see "fox fire" at night are likely to get lost when walking, or lose things, or even become foxes. There is no better way to explain all kinds of incredible phenomena than foxes.

It is also said that fox fire is the magic of all fox monsters. The fox poses from the tail, and the human poses from the fingertips, but it's just a bluff.

Hugurumayoubi: Hugurumayoubi was the emperor's favorite concubine in the late Nara period. She is very charming and an absolutely beautiful woman. It was only because of the jealousy of Yuji, the daughter of Fujiwara Fiona Fang, another favorite concubine around the Emperor at that time, that Nariakira, who was good at singing and Chinese poetry and cultivating Japanese dynasty culture, had the biggest long-cherished wish in her life, that is, to have children early, but contrary to expectations, no one in the harem had dragons-therefore, who could give birth to the first prince became the most concerned thing of the court, so when Princess Wencheng gave birth to her first son, Yuji was confined by her. Princess Wencheng went crazy and died suddenly three years later. She wrote a curse in blood before she died. Later, Yuji gave birth to Prince Guangping, but she also died young. It is said that before Prince Guangping died, someone saw a woman who looked like Princess Wenche in Prince Guangping's mansion. ...

Luo Yan: Fireworks can make people's eyes blurred, which stems from human's fear of fireworks.

Luochengmen Ghost: It has a frightening face, but it is a god. It is a monster guarding the gate, but occasionally it plays pranks and scares people half to death. They guard the door not to be human, but to guide the ghosts who have strayed into human settlements to the right path. ...

Birds caught: pregnant women with dead children stole other people's children and were very afraid of dogs.

The flying edge monster: an affair monster that sucks the essence of people

Daocheng Temple Clock: I'm not sure about this, but I heard from a friend that a temple clock turned into a monster, turned people into monks and forgot the past.

White powder girl: She usually appears as an amiable old woman, and likes to deceive beautiful girls with her beautiful appearance, tricking them into painting their faces with a kind of white powder (similar to rouge cosmetics at that time), saying that this powder can make girls whiter and more beautiful, but the girl's whole face will fall off with this white powder, and the white powder girl will take the girl's face for herself.