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Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
Yamauba
Yamauba, man-eating crone of the Japanese mountains
Supernatural mountain crone: she offers the traveller shelter and hot food, and by night devours him.
Tamamo no Mae
Tamamo no Mae, the kitsune of Toba's court
Nine-tailed vixen who sickened Emperor Toba and, killed at Nasu, became the stone that kills.
Oni
Oni, the Japanese demonic ogre of superhuman strength who punishes the wicked
The oni is a Japanese yokai ogre with colored skin, horns, and superhuman strength that terrorizes and punishes the wicked.
Karasu-tengu
The crow-headed tengu
The lesser tengu of Japan's mountains: beak, wings and claws, and the abduction that explained disappearances.
Kitsune Tenkล
Kitsune Tenkล, the celestial fox
Nine-tailed fox that after a thousand years and a long mountain seclusion attains celestial rank.
Kitsune Yakล
Kitsune Yakล, the field fox
Japanese field fox that with age takes human shape, misleads travellers with its fire and possesses people.
Sลjลbล
King of the tengu of Mount Kurama
The daitengu of Mount Kurama who, legend says, taught swordsmanship to the boy Minamoto no Yoshitsune.
Sutoku Daitengu
Sutoku Daitengu, deposed emperor transformed into a vengeful great tengu
Sutoku Daitengu is the spirit of Emperor Sutoku who, after biting his tongue and writing a blood oath of vengeance, transformed into a daitengu and caused disasters in Japan for centuries.
Kitsune Myลbu
Kitsune Myลbu, celestial messenger of Inari ลkami
Celestial messenger of Inari who conveys agricultural blessings and prosperity.
Kappa
Kappa, the Japanese aquatic yลkai fond of sumo and cucumbers
Kappa is the Japanese aquatic yลkai with a turtle head that loves sumo, cucumbers, and steals shirikodama.
Konoha-tengu
Konoha-tengu, lesser tengu of the ลi River
Low-ranking tengu: a night bird that fished the ลi and carried loads for the great tengu.
Aka-oni
The red oni, and the hindrance he carries
The default oni of Japanese folklore. His colour is not rage: in the Buddhist scheme he carries craving.
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