Yokai Cats Vol. 1

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You will lose these if you die anyway, so I found it to be much more worth it in the long run if you just sell them when you get them. You won't lose the thread you get from selling them, and you can use that thread on the beads I've mentioned in tip 1. At the time, there was no mention of supernatural powers, and it seems that these early nekomata were simply a feared predator, though whether myth or fact remains unknown [4, 11]. There is speculation that rabies or tigers imported from China may have been the culprit, but there is no way to know for sure [4]. With time, the mountain nekomata legends grew, literally. The size of the creatures increased over centuries of stories [5]. In an 1809 writing, it was said to be more than six feet long (1.8 m) and carrying a dog in its mouth [4, 5, 10, 11]. Mountain nekomata [ edit ] "Nekomata to Iu Koto ( ねこまたといふ事)" from the "Tonoigusa" by Ogita Ansei (1660). A scene of a hunter shooting a nekomata that has shapeshifted into the hunter's mother. During the Edo period, when men frequented brothels for the services of prostitutes. Some male clients that fall asleep after being serviced would wake up in the middle of the night to see a woman with a cat’s head (or a shadow of her) hunched over a plate of fish or fish bones. The man would either run away terrified or be devoured having been caught looking by the Bakeneko.

Nekomata. (2020, September 9). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nekomata&oldid=977577652 The legend that cats could speak may have arisen from misinterpreting the cat's meowing as human language; for this reason some would say that the cat is not a type of yōkai. In 1992 (Heisei 4), in the Yomiuri newspaper, there was an article that argued that when people thought they had heard a cat speak, upon listening a second time, they realized that it was simply the cat's meowing and that it was only coincidence that it resembled a human word. [4]Some say the second type of two tailed cats were runaway cats that transformed into Nekomata after having made the mountain its new home. With the strange or exceptional characteristic cats tend to have, it is not surprising that the stories of Bakeneko and Nekomata also took hold and the mythical world was enhanced with their legendary stories. Cat Prostitutes Strike Fear Tengu is depicted as an evil-looking long-nosed creature, with an almost bird-like face. Tengu’s sole purpose is to deviate people away from the pathway to enlightenment through their magical skills and mischievous behavior. Legend tells of a child who was born with superhuman strength. He was raised in the wild and communicates with animals who become his allies on his missions and adventures. 20. Aka Manto

The spirit perception beads will be good for whenever you choose to start your yokai and cat hunts, because both are detected by them. This almost-human-looking yokai is perhaps the most pleasant and harmless of all yokai. He is often depicted as an old man with a large, elongated head, wearing Japanese robes. Curran, Beverley; Sato-Rossberg, Nana; Tanabe, Kikuko, eds. (2015). Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-83170-4. According to Japanese folklore, yurei are deceased people who have not been able to join their ancestors in the afterlife; thus, they’re condemned to wandering around in limbo for eternity.Similar to the Kasa-obake, the Nurikabe is yet another yokai that is not an animal. Instead, the word ‘nurikabe’ literally translates to plastered wall, and that’s exactly how the Nurikabe yokai is depicted! Imagine a dull, grey wall with arms and legs and you’ve got yourself the Nurikabe. Yokai (妖怪) is the Japanese word for “demons”. It does not refer to the Western world’s image of a demon, called akuma (悪魔) in Japanese, but to a class of supernatural beings and spirits that originate from Japan. A Bakeneko prostitute eating while the surprised client looks on. (1775) Torii Kiyonaga ( Public Domain )