Scrimp and save to afford to buy your own small plot of land, then work the rest of your life toiling in the rice fields all to make a better life for your family and then after you die, all your work is for nothing because no one maintains your plot and it deteriorates to… Continue reading Dorotabo
Tenome have eyes on their hands instead of in their heads. There are several stories about these Yokai. One story says this creature was a blind man who was robbed and so desperately wanted see the robber that eyes grew on his hands and thus he became a Tenome. In another story a man ran… Continue reading Tenome
Sometimes when a women doesn’t eat much she can be cursed with a second mouth. This second mouth often is insistent, through insults and swearing, that the women feed it. The second mouth will often cause the inflected women pain and will eat twice the normal amount of food.
Many stories surround this Yokai. A Rokurokubi appears as a normal looking women but when she falls asleep her neck stretches and her head goes around eating bugs and rodents, scaring people and evening biting people to death. When Yokai awakes, she has no memory of what her head did during the night.
A women’s souls can be transformed in to a Hannya demon if the women falls into an obsessed state of jealousy. As she falls deeper, she feels more and more scorned by her lover. Then she falls into a deep state of sorrow, her soul becomes tormented and the demon immerges.
