You are walking down a forest path when you encounter an elderly woman. She flings sand in your face, temporarily blinding you, then cackles and flees. Congratulations. You have just encountered a Sunakake Baba. Don’t take it personally.
According to legend, if a lonely single man wishes hard enough on an icicle, it will transform into a Tsurara Onna, a beautiful young woman who will marry him and offer blissful companionship. Until the beginning of spring when she will disappear.
Should she return the following winter and discover her former love shacked up with someone else, there’s a good chance he may be found, at a later date, stabbed through the eye with an icicle.
You’re walking down a dark, deserted street when you hear it. Beto beto beto – the tell-tale sound of wooden sandals following you. You speed up and it speeds up. Slow down and it slows down. You are being followed by a Betobeto-san, The Footsteps Yokai! What can you do?
Simple. Just step aside and acknowledge its presence, motioning it by with an “After you” or “Osakini dozo”. The Betobeto-san will then pass and continue on its way, leaving you to your lurid nocturnal activities.
If you’re partial to visiting graveyards at night, beware the Tenome, monk-like creatures with eyes in the palms of their hands. They are swift, hunt by scent, and are known to slurp the bones out of their victims’ bodies, leaving behind nothing but skin and meat. The best parts!
The Bansho no Sei is the spirit of a Japanese banana that makes its presence known by assuming the form of a human face on the broad leaf of a banana tree. Occasionally, it may also magically impregnate women who happen by.
And today’s Yes/No…
Pancake Spaghetti? Yes/Nohttps://t.co/XpCz7qoI3S
— Joseph Mallozzi 🏴☠️ (@BaronDestructo) October 1, 2022
“Should she return the following winter and discover her former love shacked up with someone else, there’s a good chance he may be found, at a later date, stabbed through the eye with an icicle.”
Understandable.
Ooh, the Tenome reminds me of the Pale Man from Pan’s Labyrinth.
True, and that first monster looks like it came from Where the Wild Things Are. That Banana Ghost must have gotten the blame for a lot of babies back in the day.