Chii no Oya
A mother figure with large breasts, they are also always depicted as having long black
hair that is rather unkempt and looks very washed out like most other ghosts.
So that is the Yokai called Chii no Oya which literally means the Breasts or Milk of a Parent.
This particular yokai would always be in graveyards in search of dead children to breast feed
and to nurse them with their big breasts. I have to mention the big breasts because
that is a definite description of the Chii no Oya.
Anyways, other than graveyards, they are also said to be the cause of death if a recovering
sick child dies.
So a simplified story of it goes something like this; a child was sick and in bed.
He was showing signs of recovery, so he was left to rest. But suddenly, a large breasted women
appeared before him and said "Come here my boy" offering to nurse him.
So he did and he died. The end.
Betobeto san
Have you ever felt like someone is following you from behind but when you look behind no
one's there? It could be Betobeto-san; an invisible yokai that only appears at night.
Imagine you are walking along a street alone at night. You hear footsteps behind you so
you look back, nothing. So you continue walking. The footsteps continues as well. As you proceed,
you notice that the footsteps slowly synchronising with your own pace, just right behind you.
You look back, still nothing. So there's 2 things you can do. One, ignore it and be paranoid
for the rest of your life or night depends on the creatures whims or two, step to the
side of the road, acknowledge it and say
"Betobeto-san, Osakini Okoshi"
OR
"Betobeto-san, Osakini dozou" which means "Please, you first"
Surprisingly, they would gladly accept and move on.
There's one story though where Betobetosan refused to move on because it was a very dark night
and the guy it was following had a lantern.
So the guy offered his lantern and again Betobeto-san happily accepted. Then all the guy saw was
When the lantern was taken away from him,
All the guy saw, was
the lantern bobbing about in the air as the invisible Betobeto-san was walking away.
So are they dangerous? Probably not. They probably just don't like walking alone at night.
Shirime
When you hear ghost stories or monster stories,
some of them always describe the eyes of that particular creature in the story.
May it be red eyes that glows or sharp eyes that penetrates your soul.
Well, the Shirime has an eye, and that eye is located on its buttocks,
exactly where its anus should be. Its really apparent from its name which means backside eye.
Another feature of the Shirime is that it has no facial features, so it has a blank face.
A bit like the Mu Onna as talked in another video.
Anyways, the Shirime are not dangerous but they do like to shock or scare people and
this is what they always do.
Usually, late at night, on the street or road, the Shirime would appear like a normal man.
Atleast from afar.
They would slowly approach travelers and call out to them and once it has their attention
it would start undressing without any warning. Then it would show its blank face, turn around,
bend over and would start spreading its butt cheeks revealing a large, shiny, glittering
eye, right where its anus should be.
This is when people would either get stunned and it would walk away or people would scream
and run in horror leaving it behind, never to be seen again. I guess they are a bit like
those exhibitionists that like to flash privates parts at unwilling people.
Nuppeppo
Well this creature is a big blob of flesh that dwells around temples, cemeteries, deserted
streets or other run-down areas. It stands at about the same height of an average 12-13
year old female human and it has fat stubby limbs with short swollen fingers. Also, there
appears to be a hint of a face in the fold of skin in its fat body but a definite head
is hard to discern.
So just imagine a saggy Mr. Potatohead which instead of a nice potato shape, replace it
with a sagging blob of skin and flesh.
They don't seem to be harmful. Rare accounts of them says that they are usually alone,
wandering aimlessly and bobbing about in desolate places and would emit a horrible pungent smell
of rotting flesh that could make you sick.
They seem to like the sight of people getting nauseous that you could hear a gagging laughter
coming from them and for a fat blob of flesh, they can actually move pretty fast and could
outrun most humans when needed. But seeing how people can't breathe near them, most people
would pass out or run out of breath rather quickly, because of their smell, which makes
catching them seems impossible.
Sagari and the Uma no Ashi
Sagari means Hanging and Uma no Ashi means Horse's Legs. I bundled these two yokai together
because these yokai involves the spirits of horses attached trees.
So, they are the spirits from horses that died by humans or while serving humans and were
left to rot on the roads. It is said that when the spirits of the horses rises from
their bodies, their souls could get caught in the nearby trees and thus becomes trapped in the branches.
The Sagari is a dismembered horse head that appears by suddenly dropping down from the
tree, especially Hackberry trees, to startle travelers on the road. It would hang on a
branch and start screaming and crying and making horse sounds all with the face of a
suffering dead horse. So they don't really do anything dangerous when they show themselves
but those who are subjected to these scare may develop a terrible fever after some time.
Now the Uma no Ashi is pretty similar in that they would drop down and hang on a branch,
but horse legs would appear instead of a severed horse head. And all the hanging legs would
do is just kick passersby. But getting kicked by a horse is no joke, so its probably more
dangerous than the Sagari. :D