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Mount Fuji or Mount Tsukuba. So he weighed them Futakuchi-onna "two-mouthed woman"- is a type of
C on a great scale. However, when he was finished he
h dropped the latter, splitting its peak. The Hitachi no
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p Kuni Fudoki, a recording of the imperial customs in
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e the Hitachi Province told of such a giant living on a
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hill west of a post office of Hiratsu Ogushi who fed
on giant clams from the beach, piling the shells on
top of a hill.
Datsue-ba "old woman who strips clothes"- is a Jap-
anese Buddhist folklore of an old woman who sits at
the edge of the Sanzu River in the Buddhist under-
world. At the river, she has two primary duties.
When a child dies she strips the children of their
clothes and advise them to build a pile of pebbles on
which they can climb to reach paradise. But before
the pile reaches any significant height, the hag and
underworld demons maliciously knock it down. The
Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo saves these souls from
having to pile stones eternally on the bank of the riv-
er by hiding them in his robe. When a soul is that of
an adult, Datsue-ba forces the sinners to take off their
clothes, and the old-man Keneo hangs these clothes
on a riverside branch that bends to reflect the gravity
of the sins. If the sinner arrives with no clothes,
Datsu-ba strips them of their skin. Various levels of
punishment are performed even at this early stage.
For those who steal, for example, Datsueba breaks
their fingers, and together with her old-man consort,
she ties the head of the sinner to the sinner's feet.
-F-
Fujin- is the Japanese god of the wind and one of the
eldest Shinto gods. He is portrayed as a terrifying
dark demon, resembling a red headed black human-
oid wearing a leopard skin, carrying a large bag of
winds on his shoulders. The deity is often with Rai- who spends lonely nights waiting for her lover to vis-
jin, the god of lightning, thunder and storms.
Funayurei "boat spirit"- are ghosts that have become
vengeful spirits (onryo) at sea. They frequently ap-
pear in ghost stories and miscellaneous writings from
the Yamaguchi Prefecture and the Saga Prefecture.
Funayurei are ghosts believed to use ladles to fill
boats with water and make them sink. They are said
to be the remnants of people who have died in ship-
wrecks and are attempting to cause humans to join
them.
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yokai characterized by their two mouths - a normal
one located on her face and second one on the back
of the head beneath the hair. There, the woman's
skull splits apart, forming lips and teeth.
-G-
Gagoze - is a demon who attacked young priests at
Gango-ji temple.
Gashadokuro "starving skeleton"- giant skeletons
that are fifteen times taller than an average person.
Gashadokuro are created from gathering bones from
people who have died of starvation. The only way a
Gashadokuro can be detected before it appears is by
hearing a ringing in one's ears. If a Gashadokuro
sees a human, it will grab it and attempt to bite its
head off with its giant teeth.
Goryo- vengeful Japanese ghosts, from the aristo-
cratic classes, especially those who have been mar-
tyred.
-H-
Harionago "Barbed woman"- is said to be a
"beautiful woman with extremely long hair tipped
with thorn-like barbs that is under her direct control,
and she uses it to ensnare men. She is said to wander
the roads of the Japanese prefecture of Ehime on the
island of Shikoku. When she finds a young man, she
will laugh at him, and if the young man dares to
laugh back, Harionago will drop her terrible, barbed
hair and attack.
Hashihime "the maiden of the bridge"- is a woman
it, and later as a fierce "oni" or demon fueled by jeal-
ousy. She came to be associated most often with a
bridge in Uji.
Hone-onna "bone woman"- is a female Yokai who
kills men by extracting their life-force or by grabbing
their hands and holding them until the victim be-
comes a skeleton itself.