Jikininki - Japanese Human Eating Ghost's Urban Legend | Haunting Tube

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Jikininki (食人鬼, "human-eating ghosts") appear in Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) as corpse-eating spirits. In Japanese Buddhism, jikininki ("human-eating ghosts"; pronounced shokujinki in modern Japanese), are similar to Gaki/Hungry ghost; the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat human corpses.  A similar story can be found as "Aozukin" in Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari from 1776. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hauntingtube/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/hauntingtube/

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Jikininki (食人鬼, "human-eating ghosts") appear in Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) as corpse-eating spirits. In Japanese Buddhism, jikininki ("human-eating ghosts"; pronounced shokujinki in modern Japanese), are similar to Gaki/Hungry ghost; the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat human corpses. A similar story can be found as "Aozukin" in Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari from 1776. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hauntingtube/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/hauntingtube/

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