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Today's is Ittanmomen! A long cloth that floats about as if caught in the wind until it hits you in the face and strangles you to death.

2 13
2021-10-27

十八日目は曼荼羅淵の河童！
結構色々やらされてる河童さん。
youkaitover only for kappa!
Please take a look if you like!
kappa-only youkaitober
Day 18:Mandarabuti-Kappa


14 37
2021-10-25

Today’s is a tanuki eating tanuki soba!
Tanukis’ favorite trick is to disguise something worthless as something of value such as disguising leaves as money. Tanuki soba is made from leftover bits of tempura so it’s kinda like falling for a tanuki’s trick

11 42
2021-10-24

十六日目はヤドリまたはカッパ！
河童の中でもかなり特異な事例。
youkaitover only for kappa!
Please take a look if you like!
kappa-only youkaitober
Day 16:Yadori or Kappa


9 32
2021-10-23

The most popular versions of the Yuki-onna, the Snow Woman, involve her taking a human life after sparing the young woodcutter or weaver. She later marries him and gives birth to children, before she reveals her true spirit form.

🖼: Y. Yukikata

27 93
2021-10-22

十五日目は笹井のタケ坊！
2つの人物(一方は弁天様として祀られる大蛇)が習合した河童の親分。
youkaitover only for kappa!
Please take a look if you like!
kappa-only youkaitober
Day 15:sasai-Takebou


9 22
2021-10-22

In there is a known as makuragaeshi, which translates as pillow flipper. This creepy phenomenon is caused by a ghostly child spirit believed to haunt rooms. If you sleep there, you may wake up with your pillow flipped...

1/2

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2021-10-19

Kappa, water monsters hungry for humans, can be found in any freshwater source in Japan, including swamps. The bowl on their head contains water, but you can trick them by bowing deeply and pouring it out, weakening them.


🖼: Atelier Sentô

26 96
2021-10-17

十日目はヨモギのミントゥチ！
元々正義の味方だった北海道のかっぱです！

youkaitover only for kappa!
Please take a look if you like!

kappa-only youkaitober
Day 10:Mugwort Mintouti


11 35
2021-10-17

四日目はカベッケ！
伝承が色々ふわふわしてます！
研究進んでほしいなー。
youkaitover only for kappa!
Please take a look if you like!

kappa-only youkaitober
Day 4:Kabekke


8 29
2021-10-11


👻Day 10: Dedebo / デエデエ坊
One-legged giant

雪が降ると飛び飛びに大きな足跡のようなものがつくことがある。それはデエデエ坊という1本足の巨人が通った跡だという。

10 31
2021-10-10

三日目はワロドン！
平日は投稿時間が遅くなるかも?
ご容赦くだされ。
youkaitover only for kappa!
Please take a look if you like!

kappa-only youkaitober
Day 3:Warodon


7 29
2021-10-10


👻Day 9: Numagozen / 沼御前
Giant serpent: the lord of the swamp

昔、猟師が湖へ行くと、髪の長さが6メートルもある女が水に漬かっていた。猟師は沼の主に違いないと感じ、銃で撃った。撃たれた女は水中に消えたが、途端に雷が轟き、黒雲が立ち込め、湖が荒れたという

14 40
2021-10-09

for 's birthday, her favorite yokai Okka (by our own )

2 24
2021-10-07


👻Day 5: Gashadokuro / がしゃどくろ
Gigantic Skeleton

1960年代に斎藤守弘氏によって創作された妖怪。のたれ死にした人たちの髑髏が集まり、巨大な骸骨になったもの。歩くたびにガチガチと音を立て、目が飛び出ている。人を見ると襲いかかってくる

15 37
2021-10-05

For today - we have a nekomata. A fork tailed cat spirit that has magic powers and dislikes humans.

I based this cat off of Blanche the cat in the movie House - cause the vibes matched. Though that one didn't have two tails.

7 19
2021-10-04


👻Day 3: Adachigahara no Onibaba / 安達ヶ原の鬼婆

昔、病弱な姫君を育てる乳母の女がいた。女は姫を救う薬として胎児の生き胆を探す旅に出る。長い年月を経てついに旅の妊婦を殺し胎児を得る。だが、今しがた自分が殺した妊婦は、実の我が子であった。女は狂い、以来、鬼婆となった

10 46
2021-10-04

Today's is a ushirogami a one eyed spirit that likes to sneak up behind people and startle them, and is either a personifcation of fear? or eats off of your fear?

12 52
2021-10-03

Different regions have different rules, saying when a cat reaches 7, 8, or 13 years old, it gains magical powers. The bakeneko is a magic cat, a trickster able to shapeshift and create fire. Some even gain two tails, called Nekomata.

🖼: Cake-o

15 62
2021-10-02

So I learned is a thing this year. So I offer up some I've drawn. Starting off with chōchin-obake

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2021-10-02