Index

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Japanese Folklore

     Japanese Folktales

     Japanese Kami (deities)

     Japanese Yokai

     Japanese Traditions and Beliefs

Chinese Folklore

Miscellaneous Folklore

 

Adachi Ginko, 1885

 

Japanese Folklore

Japanese Folktales and Ghost Stores

    Bunbuku Chagama

    Cat Witches of Japan 

    Gonzaburo the Flute Player

    Kasane 

    Momiji

    My Lord Bag of Rice 

    Okiku - The Plate Counting Ghost 

    Shippeitaro 

    The Boy Who Drew Cats 

    The Crane Wife 

    The Dog That Ate a Tanuki

    The Farmer and the Tanuki

    The Ghost of Oiwa 

    The Goblin Spider

    The Hag of Adachi Moor 

    The Man Who Became a Dragon

    The Man Who Did Not Want to Die

    The Monkey and the Jellyfish 

    The Sumo Doll Who Chased Off the Bandits

    The Three Brothers and the Oni

    The Two Children and the Yama Uba 

    The White Hare of Inaba 

    Urashima Taro 

Japanese Kami (Gods and Goddesses)

    A Benzaiten Pilgrimage

    Amaterasu 

    Benzaiten 

    Fukurokuju and Jurojin

    Izanagi and Izanami

    Jizo 

    Susanoo 

    Takarabune - Seven Lucky Gods 

    Tenjin 

    Tsukuyomi 

    Ukemochi

    Uzume

 

Yokai

    The Yokai of Japan (an introduction to yokai)

    Abe no Seimei (half kitsune wizard)

    Ame Onna (rain woman)

    Aosagibi (blue heron fire)

    Ashiarai Yashiki (foot washing manor)

    Azuki Arai (the bean washer)

    Baku (dream eater)

    Bat Yokai (nobusuma, yamachichi, nodeppo)

    Funayurei (sea ghosts)

    Futakuchi Onna (two-mouthed woman)

    Gashadokuro (skeletal giant) 

    Hahakigami (broom spirit)

    Hiderigami (drought spirit)

    Hihi (baboon)

    Hinnagami (doll spirit)

    Hitotsume Kozo (one-eyed priest boy)

    Hyakki Yagyo - Night Parade of 100 Demons

    Hyakume

    Inugami (dog spirit possession)

    Itsumade (strange bird)

    Kaibyo - Yokai Cats (bakeneko, nekomata, kasha) 

    Kainan Hoshi (shipwreck ghosts)

    Kamikakushi (spiriting away)

    Kanashibari (supernatural sleep paralysis)

    Kappa (water goblin)

    Katsura Otoko (moon man)

    Kawauso (river otter)

    Kaze no Kami (sickness bringing wind)

    Kitsunebi (fox fire)

    Kotobuki (good luck yokai)

    Kuchisake Onna (slit-mouthed woman)

    Kudagitsune (pipe fox)

    Kudan (cow human chimera)

    Makuragaeshi (pillow flipper)

    Maneki Neko (lucky cat)

    Mekurabe (giant skull apparition)  

    Minogame (turtle)

    Musical Yokai (biwa bokuboku, koto furunushi)

    Nigawarai (bitterness yokai)

    Nopperabo (faceless) 

    Nurikabe (painted wall yokai)

    Ogama (giant toad)

    Oitekebori (canal spirit)

    Okuri Okami (sending wolf)

    Oni (Japanese demons)

    Senbiki Okami (wolf ladder) 

    Sobojo and Eritategoromo (Tengo king and robe spirit)

    Suiko (water tiger)

    Suppon no Yurei (soft shell turtle ghosts)

    Tanuki (supernatural tanuki) 

    Tatarimokke (owl spirit)

    Tengu in Folklore and Art (demon/demi-god)

    Tennyo (heavenly women) 

    Todaiki (human candle)

    Tsurube Otoshi (giant head)

    Umi Bozo (sea monk)

    Unagi Hime (eel priestess)

    Uwabami (giant snake) 

    Yama Uba (mountain witch)

    Yanari (house squeaker)

    Yonaki Ishi (night-crying stones)

    Yuki Onna (snow woman)

  Or you can browse my latest yokai posts

 

Japanese Traditions and Beliefs

    Children's Day 

    Kodoku - Insect Magic 

    Sanzu River

    Teru Teru Bozu

    Ushi no Toki Mairi

 

Chinese Folklore

    Cowherd and Weaver Girl (Chinese folktale)

    Folklore of Bats 

    Panda Folklore 

    Taoist Philosophy 

    The Woodcutter on the Moon

    Xiwangmu (Chinese Goddess)

    Year of the Tiger (China and Japan)

 

 

Miscellaneous Folklore

    Brigid (Irish, Gaelic)

    Circe (Greek)

    Corrag - A Scottish Witch (Scottish)

    Demeter and Persephone (Greek) 

    Diamonds and Toads (The Fairies) (French)

    Ghostly Brisbane

    Hermes (Greek)

    Helen of Troy (Greek)

    It's All In The Cards (Tarot)

    Odin (Norse) 

    Penelope (Greek)

    Rhiannon (Welsh) 

    The Greek Myths in Art