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Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
Kosodate-yลซrei
Kosodate-yลซrei, the ghost who bought candy
A mother dead in childbirth who buys candy each night for the child born in her grave.
Oiwa
Oiwa, the ghost of the Yotsuya Kaidan
The most staged ghost in Japan: poisoned by her husband, she returns with half her face undone.
Sutoku Tennล
Sutoku Tennล, aristocratic goryล of the Heian period
Retired emperor who causes calamities after his exile in Sanuki due to dynastic rivalry.
Okiku
Okiku, the voice counting plates in the well
Falsely accused of losing a plate and thrown down a well, she returns to count and never reaches ten.
Sugawara no Michizane
Aristocratic Heian period goryล, scholar and politician unjustly exiled who causes calamities after his death
Sugawara no Michizane is a Heian period goryล associated with lightning, exile and calligraphy, deified as Tenjin in Dazaifu.
Taira no Masakado
Aristocratic goryล of the Heian period, rebel warrior who leads a rebellion and causes disasters after his death
Kantล goryล with high military and geological influence, attributes of severed head, rebellion and earthquakes.
Otsuyu
Otsuyu, vengeful Japanese spirit from the Botan Dลrล folklore
Otsuyu returns each night with a peony lantern and a white kimono to visit her living lover.
Onryล
The vengeful spirit of Japanese folklore
The dead who return to collect on a wrong left unsettled in life.
Ubume
The mother dead in childbirth who holds out her child
Japanese spirit who asks you to hold her baby; the bundle grows heavier until it is a stone.
Goryล
The aristocratic spirit appeased with cult
The nobleman dead by injustice whose wrath ravaged the capital until it received cult.
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