some very important yokai from japanese folklore
a tiny old man who lies in a field doing a perfect imitation of a baby’s cry to attract concerned passers-by, before killing those who attempt to pick him up by rapidly increasing in weight until their bones shatter
an outhouse goblin with a long tongue who just scuttles around licking up that sweet sweet soap scum and other bathroom filth
what appears to be a man with an obscured face - when it spots someone at night, it drops trou, spreads its asscheeks to reveal a giant eyeball poking out of its anus, and then charges at its victim on all fours ass-first (seemingly for no reason other than to scare them)
a seemingly ordinary woman whose head detaches while she sleeps and flies around the garden looking for centipedes to eat
large angry goblins in straw coats that rampage through mountain villages yelling at kids to be good and not stopping until the parents appease them with booze
a giant who just squats over the japanese islands and washes his hands in the ocean (that’s literally all he does)
shapeshifting raccoons who use their enormous stretchy ballsacks to accomplish all manner of everyday tasks
goblins that live in the woods washing beans in the rivers, freaking out travelers by singing songs about washing beans that echo through the woods
a giant skeleton made of tons of normal skeletons combined like some sort of skeleton voltron
slimy balls of hair that just skitter around being nasty
a spirit that does nothing except sneak up on sleeping people, pull the pillows out from under their heads, and slides the pillows under their feet
vaguely humanoid blobs of obese, stinky flesh with no eyes or mouths that are harmless and by all accounts quite friendly - if you eat the flesh of one, you gain immortality at the cost of living your life as one of them
a little old man with a very long head who sneaks into empty houses and insists that he owns them even when the homeowners return (one of the most powerful yokai)
