#Spooktober 2: Jikininki

October 2, 2022

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:

Oshidori, a tragic tale of love and loss featuring two ducks;
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);
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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