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Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
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.
Sōjōbō
Sōjōbō, daitengu mountain king of Mount Kurama
Sōjōbō is the daitengu mountain king of Mount Kurama, master of the hero Minamoto no Yoshitsune and lord of storms and kenjutsu.
Konoha-tengu
Konoha-tengu, yamabushi ascetic of the sacred mountains
Intermediate phase of the tengu lineage that after centuries of shugendō asceticism adopts a humanoid form with prominent nose and complete yamabushi attire.
Karasu-tengu
Karasu-tengu, the bestial crow tengu of early Japanese folklore
Anthropomorphic giant crow spirit that inhabits mountain forests and abducts lost children.
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.
Yamauba
Yamauba, anthropophagous crone of Tōhoku Japanese folklore
Supernatural crone who offers daytime shelter and devours at night in Tōhoku forests.
Tamamo no Mae
Tamamo no Mae, the transmigratory imperial seductress of nine tails
Tamamo no Mae is the nine-tailed kitsune courtesan who syncretizes three East Asian femmes fatales and causes dynastic falls.
Kitsune Tenkō
Tenkō Celestial Elder Kitsune
Ascended Kitsune Tenkō that after a thousand years of Zen-Taoist-Shinto cultivation attains independent celestial status.
Kitsune Myōbu
Kitsune Myōbu, celestial messenger of Inari Ōkami
Celestial messenger of Inari who conveys agricultural blessings and prosperity.
Kitsune Yakō
Kitsune Yakō, rural predator fox of Japanese folklore
Common Japanese fox that after one hundred years develops partial human transformation and rural predation through possession, foxfire and seduction.
Kappa
Kappa, the Japanese aquatic yōkai fond of sumo and cucumbers
Kappa is the Japanese aquatic yōkai with a turtle head that loves sumo, cucumbers, and steals shirikodama.
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