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Yokai: The kijimunā

 

                                                   kijimunā from  Interviews with Monster Girls,

 

 

 Kijimunā
or
Kijimuuna


The name comes from an old Okinawan village, Kijimuka
Another names is sēma, bunagaya

 

The southern island chain of Okinawa is home to yōkai that can not found anywhere else in Japan.

 

 

The kijimunā are small elf like beings creature that live in the banyan trees that grow all over the Ryukyu archipelago.

Physically, kijimunā are about the same height as a human child, with bright  and thick  red hair, and red tinted skin. They wear skirts made of grass, and move about by hopping instead of walking. Although kijimunā retain the appearance of child-like youthfulness into their adulthood, males are noted for their large and prominent testicles.

Thier social structure is similar to human society, they fish along the shores, live in family groups, get married, and raise children the same way as everyone else. On rare occasions, they marry into human families.

Their diet consists entirely of seafood. They are excellent fishers, and are particularly skilled at diving. 

Kijimunā use both these skills to catch their favorite dish: fish heads—specifically the head of the snapper species called the double-lined fusilier.


They are especially fond of fish eyes, even preferring the left eye over the right. Okinawans attribute eyeless corpses of fish found on the beach to
picky kijimunā.




They also have a number of off or peculiar fears and prejudices. They loathe chickens and cooking pots. They are extremely put off by people passing gas.(But who isn't lol)

However, the thing they hate above all else is the octopus. They avoid octopuses at all costs, despising them and fearing them at the same time.

 

Kijimunā often help fishermen catch fish, or aid humans in other ways in return for a cooked meal. 

When they form friendships with humans,
it can last for a lifetime. Kijimunā will often return to their human friends many times, even spending holidays with their adopted family.

Unprovoked attacks on humans are rare, but Cutting down the banyan tree they live is a sure way to earn their wrath.

 

Kijimunā once wronged have been known to murder livestock, sabotage boats so they sink while their owners are far out at sea, or even magically trap people in
hollow trees from which they cannot escape.

Sometimes they press down on peoples’ chests while they sleep, or snuff out lights during the night. Once angered, a kijimunā can never be assuaged.

The hold a lifelong grudge, so Its best to stay on their good side.

Iso Onna:The Coast Woman.

 

 

 

 

 

 The Iso onna is a dangerous vampire like yokai  from Kyushu and Western Japan they feed on fisherman and travelers. 

 

They are closely related to nure onna, despite having no serpent like  features at all. Iso onna wander rocky beaches, hunting for prey.

They  are occasionally encountered far out at sea, but they otherwise act the same as they do on land, capturing their human prey and draining their victims’ blood using their long hair.

Iso onna are most commonly encountered during the holiday seasons of Obon and New Years Eve, when the border between the realm of the living and the realm of the dead can be more easily crossed. 

They occasionally cooperate with ushi oni to catch their prey the same as nure onna. 

 

 When she appears on the  beach or shore, she looks like beautiful young women, staring far out to sea. 

When somebody approaches and tries speak to her, she will turn around and let out an ear-piercing shriek, which stuns their victim. Then attacks with her long hair and drag her prey into the sea, where she drains her victim’s blood with her hair. 

 

On rocky coasts without sandy beaches, iso onna appear sitting on the cliffs and calling out to passersby in an eerie voice. Their victims are mesmerized into walking straight towards them, ignoring the dangers posed by the rocky cliffs. They walk off the cliffs and fall to their deaths, leaving the iso onna free to feed on their bodies. 

 

 Individual accounts of iso onna vary from one telling to the next  when it comes to her appearance. 

 

In most cases, they appear as beautiful women who have just come out of the water, dripping wet. Their hair is long and matted, reaching almost all the way down to the sand. 

Their eyes are heavy with sultry, sexual energy, and their wet clothes stick, nearly transparent, to their skin. From the waist up, they appear like ordinary human women, albeit soaking wet, while from the waist down, they are slightly blurry and transparent, hinting at their spectral nature. In some regions, iso onna are said to have snake like bodies similar to nure onna, while in other regions they are said to be large enough to crush ships out at sea, like umi-bōzu. 

 

They also have the ability to disguise themselves perfectly as large beach rocks when they don’t want to be seen. 

 

 

Nure onago

 

 

 

              

                                      The Nure Onago

濡女子
ぬれおなご
wet girl // soaked woman .. or  nure hanayome wet bride.

The Nure onago look  like a regular young  woman with wet hair.
 

They are most often encountered on roads near swamps, rivers, and the coasts, or during nights with heavy rain fall.

As the name implies, they are soaked with water from head to toe. Often, nure onago are covered with dead leaves and things stuck to their dripping bodies. They wander arond  soaking wet and dripping;


Travelers along the coasts and rivers of the islands of Shikoku and Kyūshū will occasionally encounter young girls, lost and soaked to the bone. Most people who see them would feel the need to rush over to help the poor girls. 

 

But once a human gets  close enough to a nure onago, she looks up into their eyes and smiles. If the smile is returned, she will follow the helpful stranger everywhere, sticking by him forever.

Although she  doesn't actually  harm the individual, her constant presence is often enough to ruin the rest of a person’s life because the nure onago continually drip water and stink of mildew and swamp water. Not someone you  want following you home or to work.

Ignoring a nure onago and refusing to return her smile is the only way to avoid this yōkai. Unfortunately, by the time her true nature is discovered it's usually too late.

It's a common belief that Nure onago are born from the strong feelings of loss and sadness shared by widows of drowning victims—particular widows of sailors lost at sea. These feelings build up and materialize into a nure onago, whose desire for attention is the amplified desire of heartbroken widows to see their husbands again.

The Nure onago behavior is somewhat similar  to the hari onago, though in a far less violent form.

 

 The two are sometimes grouped together as waraionago, smiling girls. Both are also found on the island of Shikoku, suggesting a possible connection between them. They should not, however, be confused with the similarly named nure onna or iso onna,  two far more dangerous yōkai.