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A-Yokai-A-Day: Kanashibari Old Hag Syndrome, Japanese Urban Legends, Old Hag, Japanese Mythology, Japanese Horror, Japanese Folklore, Dreams And Nightmares, Scary Art, Urban Legends

Today's yokai is not so much a yokai per se, as a yokai-induced phenomenon. One thing I love about it is that it is similar to the medieval Western superstition regarding the same medical phenomenon: sleep paralysis. In Euoropean folklore, sleep paralysis was attributed to a demon visiting you in the night. Sometimes this was

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