岐阜県
3 yokai with records here · Chūbu · View on the map
送り犬（おくりいぬ）
A 1936 Gifu account describes a mountain dog that follows a traveler all the way to his door — and leaves only after salt and a word of thanks.
Dog that follows at night and guards you if you do not fall
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.
Sekien's mind-reader that harms no one
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.
Where the 1979 school rumour is first reported to have spread
