章魚人形 takoningyou

章魚人形（蛸人形）　tako_ningyou(The octopus which carried out human's form),japan

The monster of the sea caught by Meiji period at a fisherman's net. It was made the show.

雀変魚 jaku_hen_gyo

雀変魚　jaku_hen_gyo(The fish which changes itself into a sparrow),japan

Many people reported "an animal changes itself into another animal" in Edo period in Japan. As for a plant changed oneself into an animal etc. This is also one of them.

大三平二満面 oo_odafuku_men

大三平二満面（大お多福面）oo_odafuku_men(big lucky face),japan

This is the supernatural creature by whom press reports were done to new Meiji period. Otafuku(odafuku) is the thing of a god of good luck from ancient times is said in Japan.It is famous for the mask used to a festival.

川赤子 kawa_akago

川赤子　kawa_akago(river baby),japan

The voice over which a baby cries from a river can be heard night. Even if it searches, nothing is.

三面鬼 sannmennki

三面鬼　sannmennki(three faced demon),japan(kanazawa)

The mummy of the head of a human being with three faces saved in Zenngyou temple in Kanazawa. It is used in order to show the teachings which disobey Buddhism and which will be solved of becoming.

猫蛇鳥 nekohebidori

猫蛇鳥　neko_hebi_dori(cat_snake_bird),japan(osaka)

This is the animal witnessed in Osaka in 2004. It had the head like a snake and had the form of a winged cat.

逆立ち女 Handstand woman

逆立ち女　Handstand woman,japan
A Ronin (Samurai) met the woman who had stood on one's head in the ferry in the river on the way back from the trip. The woman tells him to put her to the boat together. The boat was made to multiply the ronin, and he took her to one barber as she asked. The guard of the amulet was pasted to barber's entrance. The handstand woman asked the ronin to peel off guard. The handstand woman belonged straight to the barber when he threw away guard. A noisy sound was heard from the inside soon. And, the woman came out and the bow was said ･･･ In not handstand but "Normal appearance". According to his hearing the woman showed up in the barber, and killed barber's wife at the time. She had been barber's concubine, and killed from the head to upside-down by the well by the wife.

縄の鬼 nawa_no_oni（haunted rope）

縄の鬼　nawa_no_oni（haunted rope）,japan

"Oni" means a ghost,spirit,fairy,ogre,and demon.
This is a story published in famous essay "Mimi_bukuro" in Edo period. One rope came later in the person who was walking in the town in the middle of the night back. The person recognized and feared it.He had spent time in a bar on the way,and safely returned to the house. Next morning,he knew that the master in the bar hung by himself with the rope. Such It is a demon of clinging was infested in Edo well.

痰つぼ婆 tantsubo_babaa

痰つぼ婆　(tantsubo_babaa)=Old woman who likes jars that phlegm enters,japan
Urban legend 20 previous in year or more. There was an old woman who collected "Container that was spit out and put" set up at the station. She drank it up according to the witness.

座敷わらし zashiki_warashi

座敷わらし zashiki_warashi(Room child),japan
Wealth is brought to the house with the fairy. The house falls when he (she) leaves. It goes out to outdoor recently and it dances together in the festival.

泥田坊 dorotabou

泥田坊　dorotabou(Priest in mud of rice field),japan
Monster who attacks profligate son who sold off parents' rice fields.

電柱の上に立つ女 Woman who stands on utility pole

電柱の上に立つ女　Woman who stands on utility pole,japan(TOONO,iwate district)
The ghost of standing on utility pole in banks of a river on windy, dim day. It is said that she is a woman killed in the vicinity.

牛女 Ushionna

牛女　Ushi_onna（=cow woman）
Urban legend in Kobe.Various shapes are told.It is said that the woman with the face like a cow ･･･ similar famous "Monster who prophesies" that is called "KUDAN" in Meiji period・・・secretly isolated would lurk running away in the middle of the air raid of the Pacific War.

アスワン aswang

アスワン　aswang(=vampire woman),phillipine
The rumor concerning this vampire is confused (As well as other rumors). Apparition legend of Southeast Asia" is what mostly a lot of rumors and the legends mixed it. The case of it that cannot be fixed to a specific appearance is extremely abundant. The most general appearance of aswang is the folk tale one. In a word,It is "fanciful",and ugly. One woman's upper-body separates at night, it floats, and the child and the pregnant woman are attacked. Aswang indoors hangs a long tongue down from the roof, and breathes in the blood of the sleeping victim. Aswang can go in and out also in a small window because it is small(only an upper body). Aswang might breathe in blood biting directly. The appearance of aswang often comes in succession with the image of the bat. The apparition in the former colony also has the rumor that is the possibility of received the influence of an old suzerain, and thought to be an inflow from Europe actually. There is an influence of the vampire in this vampire's "Part" Europe and it will not be able to be negative. However, the rumor of the aswang appearance doesn't discontinue now. Though most is a fake.

(Manananggal)

ストリゴイ strigoi

ストリゴイ　strigoi,romania
It is a kind of a general vampire in the country. There is a legend of the dead' taking the shape of this monster sometime and it causes harm to his(her) family. There is a region where a kind of convention about "strigoi" remains now. A similar story is spread also to China, and it is believed now.

オゴメ ogome

オゴメ　ogome,japan（Miyake island）
This creature lives in the mountain.it is told no good luck bird,and puts out laughter like the baby.

オドデさま odode_sama

オドデさま　odode_sama=Mr.Odode,japan
This is a missis. The appearance is told that it crossed the owl to man.

影ワニ kage_wani

影ワニ　kage_wani=shark that feeds on shadow,japan
This is a story told between fishermen. "SAME(=shark)" was called "WANI(=crocodile)" in Japan. The fisherman who went out to fishing by the boat sees shark's appearance at sea. Fisherman's shadow had expanded in the sea. The shark hold it in one's mouth, and drags it in to the sea with the fisherman's body. Or, the fisherman will die as soon as it did. This looks like the legend of general "shadow removing" well in Europe. The legend of "shadow removing" is handed down in various places in Japan.

大舌の怪物 Monster with large tongue

大舌の怪物 Monster with large tongue,japan
This was a monster who appears in the field of the farmer in Himeji. The record,that the object that hangs a red tongue down from a huge eyeball appeared, and the dragon rose there to the sky remains in Edo period.

飛び物 tobi_mono

飛び物 tobi_mono = flying object,japan
This flying objects was reported in Edo period. "One like the cobweb" was flying over the sky,and disappeared when it was captured, and grasped. It seems to be the same as the one that is called "angel hair" in Europe. The larvas might pull the string as ecology of a kind of spider known well and they fly on the wind. There is a possibility of showing that.