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In #JapaneseFolklore, kijo are female demons. They appear as hideously ugly woman often with sharp horns, long claws, red eyes, wild hair & dressed in rags. These #yokai are women who were transformed into monsters due to jealousy, crimes or hatred.
#FolkloreThursday
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This week #WyrdWednesday is about all things green, so I'm going to tweet about the kappa, a #yokai from #JapaneseFolklore. Kappas are small reptilian creatures about the size of a small child. They live in lakes and rivers waiting to attack unsuspecting passers-by.
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'Song of the Sea' is a beautiful hand-drawn animated film about selkies. A boy discovers his mute sister Saorsie is actually a selkie and he blames her for their mother's disappearance. She has the task of freeing faerie creatures from the Celtic goddess Macha.
#MythologyMonday

Some say this is the earliest science fiction story as Princess Kaguya comes to Earth from the Moon to escape a celestial war and is later apparently returned to her extraterrestrial family on the moon in a round flying machine similar to a flying saucer.
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🎨by #StudioGhibli

'The Tale of Princess Kaguya' is a Studio Ghibli animated film based on the Japanese folktale of the bamboo cutter, an anonymous literary work from 1592. Kaguya is found by an old couple in a bamboo stalk & it is later discovered that she came from the moon.
#MythologyMonday
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In Japanese mythology, Susanoo is the god of the sea, and brother to the sun goddess Amaterasu. Like the ocean, Susanoo was known for his wild and unpredictable behaviour. Eventually the other gods banished him from the heavens after he upset his sister.
#FolkloreThursday
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In Japanese mythology, Susanoo is the god of the sea, and brother to the sun goddess Amaterasu. Like the ocean, Susanoo was known for his wild and unpredictable behaviour. Eventually the other gods banished him from the heavens after he upset his sister.
#FolkloreThursday
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'Seiobo Having a Swing' - full image.
#ukiyoe

In both China and Japan the goose is linked with the moon. It was common for the family of a bride to give a goose as a gift to the groom.
#SuperstitionSat #birds #ukiyoe
Art: 'White-fronted Goose' & 'White Fronted Goose & Full Moon' - Ohara Koson.

Gashadokuro are giant rattling skeletons wandering in the dead of night, often on old battlegrounds. Their teeth chatter & bones rattle. If you unluckily encounter one they'll likely crush you or bite off your head.
#FaustianFriday #yokai
🎨Matthew Meyer, https://t.co/xobtRY1SJl