Jikininki
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title:
Jikininki
text:
Jikininki appear in Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) as corpse-eating spirits. In Japanese Buddhism, jikininki, are similar to Gaki/Hungry ghost; the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat humans and human corpses. A similar story can be found as "Aozukin" in Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari from 1776.
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Short story by Lafcadio Hearn
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jikininki
date created:
2004-05-07T17:00:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T23:46:27Z
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