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Kappa
Cunning and Clever · Dangerous and Menacing · Devious and Deceptive · Yokai

Kappa

March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 TroyLeave a comment

Kappa’s are an aquatic green creature with a bowl-like head that holds water. While a Kappa is typically the size of a child, it has more strength than a human man. The are awkward when out of the water but they can be deadly in the water. If you run into one, remember, if they… Continue reading Kappa

Noppera Bo
Cunning and Clever · Harmless and Benign · Yokai

Noppera Bo

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 TroyLeave a comment

This Yokai can take the form of any creature but most times it likes to take the form of a human. It really enjoys scaring people but it’s mostly harmless.

Futakuchi-onna
Curse · Erratic and Unpredictable · Yokai

Futakuchi-onna

March 17, 2021March 18, 2021 TroyLeave a comment

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.

Dodomeki
Curse · Devious and Deceptive · Thief · Yokai

Dodomeki

March 11, 2021March 18, 2021 TroyLeave a comment

A Dodomeki is a cursed women thief. Their long arms are covered in eyes and in some stories they can extrude poisonous gas from their mouths and flames from their bodies.

Shinigami
Apathetic · Dangerous and Menacing · Yokai

Shinigami

March 10, 2021March 18, 2021 TroyLeave a comment

The death bringer! This Yokai chooses the time of your death. The king of the underworld is also a type of Shinigami. The Shinigami is similar to MorrĂ­gan of the Faye and the Grim Reaper in Western cultures.

Rokurokubi
Dangerous and Menacing · Erratic and Unpredictable · Yokai

Rokurokubi

March 4, 2021March 18, 2021 TroyLeave a comment

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.

Jorogumo
Cunning and Clever · Dangerous and Menacing · Devious and Deceptive · Yokai

Jorogumo

March 3, 2021March 18, 2021 TroyLeave a comment

Be careful of women you meet near waterfalls. This Yokai is part women, part spider. She can shapeshift into beautiful women. In some stories she lives near a waterfall. She uses her webs to drag men into falls where she devours them.

Hannya
Dangerous and Menacing · Erratic and Unpredictable · Yokai

Hannya

February 27, 2021March 18, 2021 TroyLeave a comment

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.

Hanako-san
Dangerous and Menacing · Yokai

Hanako-san

February 24, 2021March 18, 2021 TroyLeave a comment

In a school, on the third floor, in a girls bathroom, knock three times to summon Hanako-san. Then listen for “Yes, I am”. After being summoned Hanako-san will drag unexpecting victims into the toilet and down into the Yokai realm. This Yokai was murdered by a stranger in a school bathroom or it’s sometimes said… Continue reading Hanako-san

Kitsune
Cunning and Clever · Devious and Deceptive · Yokai

Kitsune

February 7, 2021May 24, 2021 TroyLeave a comment

Kitsune also known as nogitsune, kuda-gitsune, osaki-gitsune and ninko is a shapeshifter yokai that often takes the form of a multi-tailed fox like creature. They can appear and disappear at will. In the folklore, the more tails a creature has the older and more powerful they are. They are extremely intelligent and revel in deceiving… Continue reading Kitsune

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