The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia
- Authors
- Freeman, Richard
- Publisher
- CFZ Press
- Tags
- wildlife , nature , animals , unexplained phenomena , social science , body; mind & spirit , folklore & mythology
- ISBN
- 9781905723546
- Date
- 2010-04-29T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 16.15 MB
- Lang
- en
Everyone has heard of vampires and werewolves, but how many have heard of the rokuro-kubi, the tsuchinoki or the sagari? Japan has a wealth of ghosts and monsters, collectively called yokai, which are totally unknown in the West. The bizarre and wonderful folklore of Japan includes giant corpse-eating rabbits, flaming pigs that steal human genitals, perverse water goblins, blood sucking trees, a dragon that impregnates women, cats who animate dead bodies, a zombie whale and a huge flesh eating sea cucumber that grows from a pair of discarded knickers!