The Jikininki is a human-eating Japanese ghost who features in Lafcadio Hearn’s collection of spooky stuff called Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.
For those of you who follow the blog, I have written about him here and particularly I talked about three of his tales:
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Oshidori, a tragic tale of love and loss featuring two ducks;
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The Story of Hōichi the Earless, a spooky tale of a musician who’s enchanted into performing for a ghostly court (I will feature it here as a #ThrowbackThursday next week);
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The Yuki-Onna as a winter tale: a snow ghost interacts with two woodcutters, with jarring consequences.
Today on my Patreon we feature one of two tales of the Jikininki, a corpse-eating ghost.
Happy #Spooktober!
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