Subject
Yamabushi no onryÅ å±±ä¼ã®æ¨é
The grudge-spirit of a mountain ascetic. The fear attached to it is not a fear of magic but a fear about a social position, and the position can be documented: a yamabushi was a practitioner of the mountain discipline who belonged to no village, moved between provinces, was used as an intelligence carrier by more than one domain, was subject to his own category of policing, and worked a trade on the side in the villages he passed through. Everything that was feared about his resentment follows from that, and none of it requires a supernatural premise.
Note
- The Yamabushi Was a Man No Village Owned He arrived from outside, told fortunes, carried talismans, and was used as a spy and buried as a charm. That is the position his grudge was feared from.
Volume
Kwaidanote Casefiles
THERE IS NO COLUMN FOR IT
Five Stories of Japanese Horror Drawn from Strange Records
A domain forester keeps two books: one for the timber, one for what comes down the mountain at night. The second book exists because the first has no column for it.
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