鬼三兵衛、妻とよDemon Sanbee and the wife Toyo

鬼三兵衛、妻とよDemon Sanbee and the wife Toyo ,japan
Frightening demon of having lived in Kochi. It was said that it appeared with the ghost with the bucktooth of 17 years old as the wife.

丑女ushi_onnna

丑女ushi_onnna,japan
Woman who went out to show in Edo period. Feet were able to be moved faster and more dexterously than the hand was used though were greatly only three fingers.

蛇腹女Jabara girl

蛇腹女Jabara girl(means "Bellows girl"),japan

It was a girl who showed up as a show in Edo period.Her belly was covered with the scale like the snake.

粟田口康綱（凶剣）Sword of curse

粟田口康綱Awataguchi_yasutsuna（凶剣 Sword of curse）,japan
It was said that the person who obtained this sword was always crazy, and violated the mass murder. A famous samurai who had this sword was a sudden cutting killing the farmers of the street clinging, and committed harakiri suicide. There are a lot of stories that look like this in Japan, and a similar story is handed down to the Ainu race.

小玉鼠kodama_nezumi

小玉鼠kodama_nezumi(means Rat like small gem)
Animal being handed down by hunter in the Tohoku region. It destroys oneself when it encounters the person. The encountered person becomes unhappy.

オドデさまodode_sama

オドデさまodode_sama,japan
Mysterious bird that infested in the mountain in the Tohoku region. It had the eyeballs like the owl, and it walked by two legs like a human. It read person's mind, and had power to forecast the future. The cry is still heard now. Like this,"God of mountain" was believed by people that it had the telepathy and the prospect ability in Japan.(Sometimes "God of mountain" means "missis" in Japan,but this is not.)

毛見浦の海坊主Sea monster of Kemiura

毛見浦の海坊主Umi_Bouzu of Kemi_ura（Sea monster of Kemi_ura）
Monster from sea in Kemi_ura that got into the news with newspaper about 100 years ago.This monster attacked the private house on the beach. The hair was brown, eyes were the orange colors, and the mouth was like crocodilians.

歩く石 walking stones

歩く石　walking stones,japan
Story that actually happened about 70 years ago. The person in Osaka has picked up 16 small stones. When putting it in the pond in the garden,the fishes came to the surface and died. Then she brought them in the house.After a few hours,she saw the room and watched the stones tried to unite the circle and to go outside of the house from a window. after the child had taken it to the outside as a plaything,anything did not happen.

ぶるぶる BURUBURU

BURUBURU(Cowardly person's god),japan

Your body begins to tremble suddenly,or You feels horror sudden though anything has not happened. It is evidence that BURUBURU(means "Tremblingly") has come at such time.

笑い栂Laughingly Tsuga

笑い栂Laughingly Tsuga,japan

"Tsuga" is a tree like to cedar. One traveler heard loud voice "I am in the heart of the mountains" on the mountain path in Edo period. He ran away in surprise, and took a rest under this tree. Then, big laughter was from the tree. All fingers of both feet had been cut though the traveler went descend a mountain in a hurry. Thereafter, people came to call this tree "Laughingly Tsuga". Only the root remains now.

妖蛸Weird octopus

妖蛸 Weird octopus,japan

The woman who had been drowned at the sea was helped. However,the woman's belly swelled gradually,and she died.Though the body tried to cremate,but her belly alone didn't burn. People poked it with the stick,and a big octopus went out from the body,Then she burnt out. The rumor left that this woman tried to commit suicide with a man into the sea but only a man had died. This is a story telling at Meiji period in Hokkaido.

桂男Katsura_otoko

桂男Katsura_otoko(means "A handsome man")

Don't look at the moon! You will be called by Katsura_otoko, and your life will be lost.

磯撫isonade

磯撫isonade(patter in the beach),japan

Mysterious fish that looks like dogfish. It attacked a fisherman with a previous needle of pinna caudalis,and it dragged him in to the sea, and ate.

片身katami

片身katami(means "One Side"),japan

The soul of man who died in the sea gathers in the hanging lantern in such shape in summer.

一本だたらippon_datara

一本だたらippon_datara(means "one leg Datara"),japan

This monster appears in the mountain area by the one leg.It eats a traveler wandering there.This legend remains in various places of Japan.Maybe,It would have been the god of mountain.It had been forgotten by people.It seems like a God "Ki" in ancient China.

舞首mai_kubi

舞首mai_kubi(means "dancing heads"),japan

500 years or more ago,three bad men who lived in the beach in the Izu area killed one another, and they had died all. Thereafter, the appearance where three fireballs are intertwined at sea came to be witnessed. The sea swirled and came to be rough. Occasionally Three heads seem to fight mutually.

夜泣き婆yonaki_baba

夜泣き婆yonaki_baba(means "old woman cring at night"),japan

It comes before a gate of the house in the Shizuoka area and cries. It cries greatly by weeping in sympathy of the person inside the house. The house visited several times surely becomes unhappy.

ぬっぽり坊nuppori_bou

ぬっぽり坊nuppori_bou,japan(kyoto)

"Flat" on the face with nothing,called "Noppera_bou",was infested in various places in the end of Edo period. This is the one witnessed on KATABIRA street in Kyoto at night, and had only one eye behind hips.

自殺させる妖婆That presses suicide

自殺させる妖婆That presses suicide,japan
There was "Room not opened" in a big temple in Fukuoka Prefecture in Edo period. The person who stayed here cut the belly ("Harakiri") and commit suicide every times. One man said staying at this room to confirm true colors.People took up his sword for attention,and instead gave a fan.In the middle of the night there was an eerie old woman who had the skin like the dogfish by the bed when he woke up. He took up the fan and beat it,but he felt the pain his belly.His fan beat himself.No matter how he struck it, the fan hit his belly. He woke up "again",and frightened. He spoke this as the cause to which those who commit suicide happen frequently next morning.

馬骨bakotsu

馬骨bakotsu(means "horse's bone"),japan

The horse that was burnt to death due to a fire appeared in owner's bedside every night. It is said that it will appear with house lizard's monster. It is a story in the kouchi provinces in Japan in Edo(Yedo) period.