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Hello friends, welcome to watch the multi-dimensional strange talk, I am NanoDa.
When it comes to japanese yokai movies, I believe that many friends will first think of this movie: Yin and Yang Division, in addition, there are: Kitaro, Kamakura Monogatari and so on.
So today we will take a look at a very well-known book that records various demons and ghosts: The Hundred Ghosts nocturnal.
Some of the Japanese legends about yokai in the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk originated in the Heian Period, and in the Kamakura Period, some literati recorded many yokai that had been circulated in the past in the form of books, and the word "Hundred Ghosts Nocturnal Walk" was first derived from the Uji Relics of that era, which was later recorded, and now it has become the material for many movies, even tattoo patterns, and ukiyo-e.
It is divided into: Yin, Yang, Wind, Rain, Obscure, Bright, Cloud, Fog, Upper, Middle, and Lower Eleven Volumes.
Today we will introduce you to the five monsters in this scroll.
Wood charm
Wood charm, also known as wood spirit, tree charm, is a tree with a soul.
Japanese folklore believes that once all things exist in the human world for a long time, they will produce spirits, including things that people usually use, and flowers, plants and trees, which are originally alive, are more likely to produce spirits.
Wood charm generally only exists in the forest, will not harm humans for no reason, and will even help passers-by who are lost in the forest to get out of the forest.
However, if it happens to cut down a forest where wood charms exist, it will retaliate against humans.
Big tengu
This is all too familiar.
There are also relevant records in our Shan Hai Sutra, and the appearance of the tengu is depicted as a fox, but in Japanese yokai legend, the tengu is made of the incarnation of Emperor Shōtoku, with a tall red nose, holding a tuan fan, tall and winged, wearing the armor of a former warrior, a samurai sword around the waist, a traditional Japanese high-legged clogs, and a cloak to hide himself at any time, with an arrogant posture.
In the Kamakura period, the "Painting Scrolls of The Tengu" depicts the great battle between the Tengu and the Japanese religion: the Tendai Sect monks, and the result of defeat. It is said that in this story, there is also a tengu army from China, who came to ask for help from the Japanese tengu, but the Japanese tengu showed an arrogant attitude, so the tengu of the later Kamakura period was depicted as having a hawk face, looking at the toes with a high spirit, and the legend says that if the monk who practiced treated people with arrogance, he would become a tengu after death.
The valley sounds
Legend has it that there is an invisible monster in the deep mountain canyon, no one has ever seen it, it likes to play pranks, likes to tease travelers who walk in the mountains at night, and makes strange noises to scare people, but other than that, there is no malice.
Some theories suggest that the mountain gods actually raise small yokai, while others say that they are tengu.
Mountain boy
It is a mountain demon, similar to a kappa.
Often haunted in the deep mountains and old forests, there are also said that mountain boys and kappa are a kind, into the mountain forest is a mountain child, after the water is a kappa, and the body shape will change greatly, it does not look like a monster.
The mountain boy is short in stature and has a thick body hair, and looks like a 5 or 6-year-old child from a distance, with only one eye, likes to eat, often steals food from the monks in the mountain temple, and likes to make trouble and pranks, but usually does not hurt people.
In Chinese folklore, we call mountain boys mountain fish.
In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Inner Scriptures", it is mentioned: "In the south, there are gan giants, with long arms on their faces, black bodies with hair, and anti-heels, and when they see people laughing and laughing, they hide their faces, because they flee." ”
It means that the mountain fish, is a yang countryman, is a kind of man-eating monster, with a human face, long arms, black hair, heels walking backwards, lips are very thick, the power is infinite. According to legend, it can run faster than a leopard, but it can tear the tiger and leopard with its bare hands, but it is the overlord of the mountains, and it has a very long lifespan, and it is regarded as a monster.
Legend has it that in 334 BC, the Yue Kingdom of China during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period was destroyed, and the mountain fish moved east and landed in Kyushu, Japan.
Not only is it not harmful, but it is also very helpful, especially for the woodcutters who carry in the mountain stream, often inseparable from the help of the mountain boys, but this is not free, only need to give the mountain boys rice balls to eat, especially when moving large trees in the crossing of some peaks and encounter difficulties, as long as the mountain children are given rice balls, they must come to help every day. When the mountain boy cooperates with people to carry trees, he does not like to walk in front, and always drags behind, no matter how heavy the east is, it is very easy for him, after all, he was also a powerful mountain god. Although The mountain boy is enthusiastic, it should be remembered that don't give him rice balls to eat when you first start moving, otherwise you may not have finished moving them halfway through.
However, when it comes to the mountain boy not harming people, it does not include the most evil people, for the evil people, the mountain boy is a mountain god who will give punishment and give disease and fire to the evil person.
However, this mountain boy, or mountain fish, is a real animal, and its appearance is really exactly the same as described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, to be a digression, is it that the other strange creatures described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas have also existed or still exist?
Mountain
It is a kind of monster that lives in the mountains, looks like an old woman, often uses magic to create a house to attract people who have lost in the mountains, trick them into the house to spend the night, legend has it that the mountain grandmother can see through the heart of the person, if the person is evil in the heart, then the mountain grandmother will deceive the person into eating it in the house, if the person is good in heart, then the mountain grandmother will reward him with wealth, or follow him home, cast a spell to make the land he cultivate fertile.
There are also many stories about the mountain in folklore.
Well, this issue of the program is here, the next issue we continue to talk about the other 5 monsters in the yin scroll, remember to like the comments to support it Oh, see you in the next issue.