Yokai Night Parade 百鬼夜行

福島県

Yokai of Fukushima

2 yokai with records here · Tōhoku · View on the map

Records in Fukushima

Satori

覚（さとり）

Sekien's 1779 entry describes a black, long-haired creature of the deep mountains that understands speech, reads what you are thinking, and leaves the moment you decide to kill it — and a later tale defeats it with something nobody thought at all.

  • Mountain · Forest
  • Neutral

Danger 2/5 Editorial rating Danger rating 2 out of 5. This is an editorial rating, not a folklore measurement.

  • 1960 Hinoemata Folklore record

    Thing by the fire that spoke an old man's thoughts, startled by a popping log

Kuchisake-onna

口裂け女（くちさけおんな）

Kuchisake-onna is not an old yokai. She is a rumour that swept through Japanese schoolchildren in 1978–79: a masked woman asking 'Am I pretty?' Almost every other detail changed from school to school.

  • Street · Road
  • Harmful

Danger 3/5 Editorial rating Danger rating 3 out of 5. This is an editorial rating, not a folklore measurement.

  • 1979 Kitakata Modern rumour

    Woman in her twenties whose surgery went wrong; run