Subject
Tsukimono 憑き物
The thing that attaches. The word names the attachment rather than the person. Some arrive once and leave; others were inherited with the roof beams, and a village would refuse to marry such a household for a hundred years and more.
Notes
- The Name on the House Japanese possession as the records kept it: a spirit that could be fed and sent away, and a name fixed to a household that no rite removed.
- He Went Looking for an Inugami A philosopher who wanted the belief abolished asked where the most inugami families were, travelled there to see them, and printed the answer in a popular book.
Volume
Japanese Horror Folktales Collection
TSUKIMONO
Tales of Possession and the Things That Cling
Thirty Japanese tales of tsukimono — the thing that gets into a person, or into a household, and does not easily leave.
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