Coffin Boffinさんのイラストまとめ

NINGYO. Japanese 'human fish' #Yōkai. Appears first in the Nihonshoki in Osaka in the year 619 as a fish 'shaped like a child'. Ningyo bring good fortune & in some cases immortality as in the myth of Happyaku bikuni, an 800 year old nun who ate a Ningyo as a child #YōkaiFriday

KING O' THE CATS. Fairy tale as weird as Poe. 'Old Tom' becomes Tom Tildrum, the cat king, swelling & shrieking in a human voice. His image is of a CATSITH, or fairy cat, marked by a white spot. 'More English Fairy Tales', Joseph Jacobs, ills J. A. Batten, 1922. #Caturday

KAMIKIRI-MUSHI. Hair-cutting Yōkai, tied to strange phenomenon of Japanese women suddenly having their hair cut off. The creature is documented especially during the Edo Period & visualised in picture scrolls with a birdlike face, a pincer and a lock of fresh hair!! #YōkaiFriday

KASA O-BAKE. Umbrella monster, staple of Yōkai iconography & anime. An old-style Japanese umbrella, bamboo frame, 1 eye, long tongue & in place of a handle, a single leg. A 'bone umbrella' appears in an early Edo-period scroll Hyakkiyagyō-zu, Kanō Tōun (1625-94) #YōkaiFriday

NEWLYWEDS. Are at great risk of being attacked by #VAMPIRES. Romanian lore. They must sprinkle poppy seeds at the doorway & leave a tangled ball of yarn on the threshold. Vampires will be compelled to count the seeds & untangle the thread before entering like Count von Count!

KUDAN. Human-faced bovine. Upon being born it will utter a prophecy which will always come true then die. It is said to appear at times of unrest, natural disaster or epidemic. Kudan are examples of what Yumoto Kōichi calls 'Yogenjū', or prophesy beasts #yokaiFriday @OGOMProject

CROGLIN VAMPIRE. First appears in Cumberland to a Miss Fisher 1750s; story is retold by Augustus Hare, 1871. The vampire scratches at the window, disappearing into a vault, when opened only 1 coffin remains intact & there shrivelled but quite entire stands the The Croglin Vampire

NEKOMATA. Japanese Forked-Tailed Cat Yokai. First recorded 1233. When a cat reaches a certain age, it is said that its tail will bifurcate and it will turn bad. Today Nekomata are large cats living wild in the mountains #YōkaiFriday. Tomorrow is #Caturday check your cat's tail!

CALLICANTZAROS. Greek vampire confined to the underworld emerging for 12 days from 25th Dec to 7th Jan. The callicantzaros is often uncannily referred to in English as the Christmas vampire #worldvamps2018 Greek & Serbian folklore also has KALLIKANZAROI, malevolent xmas goblins

BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF.

It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them one is of necessity a WEREWOLF; young men are slow in seeking one of SEVEN sisters in marriage.

7 sisters werewolf myth popularised by Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865