Yokai of Shikoku

A grudge that outlives the person who held it, and keeps settling the account.

A horse that burned to death in a fire and turned into a yokai, sitting face to face with a toad inside a mosquito net.

The tanuki whose quarrel with Rokuemon became a war, and then a kōdan performance, and then a film.

The same growing giant that other regions call taka-nyūdō, but a bōzu here.

Hair kept in a hemp tub as a shrine's sacred object, which grows long and binds intruders when the enshrined kami's mood turns unsettled.

It stands in the road and keeps getting taller as long as you keep looking up.

A red-haired child yokai that moves into houses, sometimes called kin to the zashiki-warashi.

It slips into a cattle shed at night, leaves a tiny wound, and the animal is dead by morning.

A beautiful girl at a spinning wheel by the road. Stop to watch and she turns white-haired and laughs.

Hide-and-seek played alone, with a stuffed doll, from a set of instructions posted in 2007.

An oni riding a headless horse, abroad on setsubun night and the year's turn.

A shapeshifting tanuki that holds out a giant tobacco pipe and demands a toll from river boats.

A woman who licks. Her famous story calls her a cat girl; the kanji we spell her name with today is a modern choice.

A possessing spirit neighbours blame when a household grows rich fast — and fear once that household's luck turns.

A one-legged old woman in the snow. You can follow her prints, and there is only ever one line.

A stone by the road that asks to be carried, and gets heavier with every step you take.

A white glow that rises from the sea and stalls a boat until someone drives it off.

Her hair is always wet. Smile back at her, and she stays with you for life.

Someone beats a mat somewhere nearby, over and over. Nobody is there, and there is no mat.

A cry or a sudden heavy leg on a night road, said in some villages to be a child who died too soon.

A floating ball of fire with a human face in it, lured closer by slapping a straw sandal three times.

A tree comes down in the night with the axe strokes and the crash, and in the morning nothing is felled.

A booming, thunder-like sound over Urado Bay, counted as one of the three wonders of Tosa.

A three-eyed, eight-faced man-eater that preyed on travelers from a Kōchi mountain, until it was burned alive.

A kappa covered in hair like a monkey, which pulls swimmers under and takes the liver.

A small, hairy river creature of Kōchi and Tokushima that challenges people to sumo, and in some tellings swells in size as it loses.

Seven dead who travel together, mostly by the sea and rivers. They take one living person, and the one they take joins them.

Enter the mountain on the 1st, 9th or 17th and a young woman points at you and laughs; you come down half dead.

A two-legged figure whose red hair shines like the sun, too bright to look at twice; its feet stay hidden in the grass.

A small snake kept in a jar by a household, which brings wealth and cannot be got rid of.

Something that cries 'chi, chi, chi' like a sparrow and follows you, front and behind, on a mountain road at night.

A red-robed monk who turns up in three unrelated stories — a stolen temple bell, a court omen, and a lantern on the shore.

The tanuki who commanded eight hundred and eight others guarding Matsuyama castle, until a retainers' quarrel ended with the whole clan sealed in a cave.

The tanuki of Yashima, who would replay the Heike's last battle in the air for anyone who fed him well.

One of the oldest recorded oni, a temple demon subdued by a superhuman young acolyte.

A dog-spirit familiar that serves a family but can be sent to curse their enemies.

A ghostly fire-breathing chicken whose cold flames give no heat.

A savage ox-headed monster that haunts coasts and preys on humans.

Whirlwind weasels that slash a traveler's legs with sickle-like claws, leaving painless wounds.

A jolly shapeshifting raccoon dog, rival prankster to the fox.