Ushioni, Ushio
The cow ghost is from Toriyama Shiyan's "Drawing a Hundred Ghosts at Night". The cow ghost is a vicious sea monster with a head in the shape of a cow and a body that resembles a giant spider or crab.
Legend has it that it can often be found off the western coast of Japan, especially in Shimane Prefecture. Good at using poison, he will often spray venom from his mouth to launch attacks.
Coupled with the fact that he is an aquatic creature that often hides in the water near the village, if anyone provokes him, he will constantly spit venom to pollute one side of the water, and the villagers who survive on this water source will die of poisoning, which is a popular oral tradition in Kochi Prefecture.
People are afraid of cow ghosts, and cow ghosts have "fierce eyes". Gazing at the person you meet, the person you are staring at will have the illusion of trees falling leaves, rocks flowing, cows howling, horses howling, and soon after, they bleed and suddenly die, so this is also seen as the curse of the cow ghost.
Legend has it that about 400 years ago, in the area of Shioe-cho in Kagawa Prefecture, a monster of a mountain cow ghost lived deep in the mountains, harassing the villagers who lived in the nearby area. It often goes down the mountain at night to harm farmers and livestock.
People are so afraid of seeing cow ghosts that they don't dare to go out at night. Later, the villagers asked Kyoto's famous archers, yamada Tibetans, to punish the cow ghost and shoot the cow ghost to death.
Yamada Tibetans came to the village in high definition, and when they reached the mountains, they didn't find the cow ghosts that the villagers said, and he really couldn't do anything with the cow ghosts, because the strange thing was that only the villagers saw the cow ghosts, and he couldn't see them.
Yamada Tibetans went to pray with the Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes Kannon Bodhisattva and did a 7-day hunger strike.
He finally saw the cow ghost. The Yamada Tibetans secretly shot an arrow in the eye of the cow ghost, but the cow ghost was not dead, and the high-definition Tibetan shot a second arrow, which shot into the cow ghost's mouth and penetrated the throat. The cow ghost groaned and then disappeared
They walked forward with blood stains, and finally found the body of the cow ghost in the cave. The Yamada Tibetans were afraid that the cow ghost would do it again, so he cut off the horns of the cow ghost and brought it back, and enshrined it in front of the Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes Kannon Bodhisattva of the Genkaji Temple, believing that the cow ghost would not come out to harm people again.