The Japanese are very much into their feel . There arehundreds of them , many harmless , many tragic , and more than a few just mischievous . There really are n’t too many malevolent life wander the nation … but thereare a few , and you do n’t want to mess up with any of them . Here are 14 cause toavoid Nipponese relationship , Japanese bathrooms , Japanese baby and reasonably much the entirety of Japan .
1 ) Kamaitachi
Kamaitachi , literally means “ sickle weasel . ” There are threeof them , sometimes brothers , sometimes triad , who go around cutting offpeople ’s branch . The first weasel knocks someone down , the second cuts off thelegs , and the third tailor up the wound . They move so tight basically peopleblink and then suddenly agnise they no longer have stage . true , the factthat one of the weasels take the metre to patch the great unwashed up before absconding withtheir limbs helps . But , if the estimate that you could suddenly discover that weasels havestolen your legs does n’t scare you , then you ’re a better man than I.
2 ) Joro - Gumo
The Joro - gumo is a spider - cleaning woman , but she ’s not a member ofthe Avengers with a needlessly rarify backstory . She ’s a giant wanderer , withthe power to take the soma of a beautiful lady ( sometimes the top one-half ishuman , and her low torso is that of a spider ) who seduce men , wind them upin her webs , poison them , and eats them . One variation of the Joro - gumo mythsays that sometimes she appears as a woman holding a babe , who asks men excrete by tohold it . When they do , they are someone surprised to discover the “ baby ” ismade up of grand of spider - orchis , which burst exposed .
3 ) Teke Teke
Teke Teke is more of an urban legend than a regular myth , asit ’s reasonably new . She ’s the spirit of a girl who tripped on some traintracks and was cut in half by an oncoming railroad train . Now she crawls around lookingfor other people to deal her fate , which she facilitates by shorten them inhalf with a scythe . There ’s a variant of the Teke Teke myth about a girlfriend namedReiko Kashima , who was also cut in half by a caravan ; now she wanders bathroomstalls and ask multitude on the throne if they know where her pegleg are . If peopledon’t answer with “ The Meishin Railway , ” she dilute off their peg , which is bad at thebest of time , let alone when you ’re trying to poop .
4 ) Gashadokuro
This spirit is pretty simple — it ’s a giant skeleton made ofof the bone of mass who have died from starving . They swan around , grabyou , and bite your head off , drink your blood , and sum your skeleton to thepile .
5 ) Katakirauwa
The ghosts of baby slob which 1 ) have one ear 2 ) barf noshadow and 3 ) steal your bloody soul if they wangle to scarper between yourlegs . I opine I ’d rather be track by the giant batch underframe that a bunch oftiny squealing bushed baby pig , thank you .
6 ) Aka Manto
Another one of the many , many Nipponese ghost that murderpeople while they ’re seek to take a shit , Aka Manto approaches people inbathroom carrel and asks them a bare , if perplexing question : “ Would you likered paper or blue report ? ” If you say red , your form is sliced into ribbonsuntil you ’re effectively red . If you opt dreary , you ’re strangled to death . Ifyou pick any other color , you ’re dragged to hell . There ’s a strain who involve if youwant a crimson or blue ness or else of paper ; take reddened and the skin is flayed offyour back , take blue and all the bloodline is drain from your dead body . The pointis never go to the bathroom in Japan .
7 ) Tsuchigumo
Greek mythology is recognize for its variety of mixed - upmonsters — e.g. the manticore , which has a king of beasts ’s body , bat annexe , and a humanhead — but they have nothing on Japan . converge the Tsuchigumo , tool with thebody of a Panthera tigris , limbs of a spider , and the nerve of a daemon . They eat unwarytravelers ( in reality , they eat wary one as well , I ’m certain ) . Once a powerfulJapanese warrior killed a Tsuchigumo and 1,990 skulls fell out of his belly . That ’s a monster who is scarily good at his caper .
- Kekkai
childbearing seems difficult enough before you play in the possibilitythat you may give birth to some sort of demon / monster / matter . In Japan , theseare called Sankei , and the worst of them is the Kekkai . Basically , or else ofgiving birth to a baby , a lady throw nascence to a clod of flesh and rake and hair , when forthwith runs off , straight out of the vagina , and tries to burrowunderneath its mother ’s home so as to murder her later . No wonderment Japan’sbirth rate is declining .
9 ) Oshiroibaba
One of the many , many ugly devil women that apparentlywander around the land unfettered , Oshirobaba is an old crone that goesaround require girl if they ’d wish to attempt some of her font powder , like theworld ’s creepiest Avon lady . take make - up from strangers is bad thought ingeneral , and take it from former ladies is even dumber , because the Oshirobaba’spowder make believe your brass lessen off .
10 ) Ittan - Momen
The Ittan - Momen does n’t sound particularly scarey ; it’sbasically a sentient roll of cotton that just fly around in the wind atnight , wandering around . But the Ittan - Momen is also a sadistic asshole , because if it regard you , it will either enclose itself around your neck and chokeyou to death , or wrap itself around your head and suffocate you . Again , theidea that you’re able to be walking back from the convenience store and suddenly get mangle by a gravid piece of cloths is deeply disconcerting to me .
11 ) Isonade
Imagine a shark . Now reckon a shark whose fins were like a cheese grater , except instead of cheese they grated your form . That ’s the Isonade , who use their tooth and fins to both fillet you and then drag you down to theocean level , if you ’re unlucky enough to meet one in the water .
12 ) Bake - Kujira
Japan may still get in worry for whaling , but rest assuredthe rural area knows its wrong . Because when a heavyweight is killed it could come backas a Bake - Kujira — an animated whale skeleton in the closet that surfaces much like it did inlife . While discern a living whale is believe very golden , just one look at aBake0Kujira is enough to give you and your hamlet plague , shortage , fire , and / ormany other tragedy .
13 ) Hyosube
The short , humanoid demons are flyspeck , warring , and badnews . If you see one , you will die — and they are more than glad for you to seethem . They do n’t try and hide , they wander as they desire . And they ’ll feed allthe Solanum melongena in your garden , and tread your field just to be whoreson . About the only thing you’re able to do to avoid circumstantially seeing a Hyosube isleave some eggplants out for them willingly , and even that ’s a 50/50 dig atbest . Oh , and sometime Hyosube will use your bathtub , leaving behind a hugeamount of dirt , hair and scum . If you confound out the bathing tub water , the Hyosubewill fucking kill you . Just buy a new bath .
14 ) Kuchisake - Onna
Another more modern monster , the Kuchisake - Onna is a womanwho bear a aesculapian mask and ask kid if she ’s pretty . She is , so kids sayyes . That ’s when she slay her mask and reveal that her mouth has been slit openon both side , Joker - style . At this percentage point , she involve if the tiddler think she’spretty now . If the child says no , she cuts the kid in one-half . If the child saysyes , she slits his / her mouth precisely like hers . What ’s more terrific aboutthe Kuchisake - Onna is that there was a really big panic in Japan in the1970s that she was wandering about , to the breaker point where teacher personally wereescorting children home from school day .
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