What are the legendary monsters in Japan and Greece?

Japan is a monster ... Greece is a god, right?

A mermaid more than one meter high cries like a baby. From this point of view, mermaid is also a legendary magic beast, which can be regarded as a rather mysterious fish family. At that time, it was called shad or hairtail. In this respect, the Japanese mermaid and the fairy mermaid in western legends have slightly different meanings. Its posture is not necessarily beautiful, but grotesque. It appears in Wakayama Bay, Kyushu and Shikoku coastal waters, only when the storm approaches.

Sam, a monster who lives in the mountains, looks like an old woman. It is said that there are many witnesses. There are good and bad mountain baskets, which endow the land with abundant harvest and wealth, and there are also horrors of eating travelers and children. However, it is said that after the death of the evil Basque people, there will be a good harvest in the fasting place, which is somewhat similar to the beautiful myth of Xie Yi in ancient records and is the god of harvest.

In the sun, it is said that people live in the shadow of the roof and feed on people's anger.

Flying Head Man, the legendary monster with a long neck, or "pulley head". At ordinary times, it looks no different from ordinary people, but at night, when everyone falls asleep, the monster's neck begins to stretch, even longer than the giraffe's, and then its head is completely separated from its body. Someone once saw the man sleeping on the bed with a quilt, but his head was attached to his neck and he flew away from the window. It was not until the crow appeared that she recovered her original body. At this time, the head and body will be reunited. I often can't remember what I saw or did the night before. When the long-necked monster turned into a human form, some people didn't know they were long-necked monsters, so they were driven away unconsciously. Long-necked monsters eat insects when flying and use ears instead of wings.

The legendary hundred-eyed monsters in western Europe, mostly giant monsters, spread to Japan and became banshees with eyes all over their bodies. It is said that the banshee seduces men to take people's eyes for their own use. If one hundred eyes are taken away, she will become an uncontrollable demon. Legend has it that when a mage went to recover her, she had 98 eyes, and the evil light from 98 eyes made the mage unable to move. In order not to be filled by the Ophiopogon, the mage destroyed his eyes, and finally sealed the two main eyes on the head of the Ophiopogon with the ashes of Buddha incense to appease it.

Gun, an animal, is said to have the shape of a crow, the wings of a black swan, the claws of an eagle and the tail of an eel. This is a very controversial monster. As long as it thinks you are a bad person, you will not live for 24 hours. Its killing methods are extremely cruel and cannot be described in words. But if it determines that you are a good person, you will be protected by him for life. So some people regard it as an object of worship.

White powder girl, who usually appears as an amiable old woman, likes to deceive beautiful girls who are good-looking, deceiving them to paint their faces with a kind of white powder (similar to rouge cosmetics at that time), saying that this powder can make girls whiter and more beautiful, but the girl with this white powder will lose her whole face, and the white powder girl will take the girl's face for herself.

Prajna, Prajna is not the meaning of wisdom in Buddhism, but a kind of monster in Japanese legend, or rather a kind of resentment. It is said that Prajna is an evil spirit formed by women's strong jealousy and resentment. Living in the mountains, Prajna eats people in the middle of the night, and is a female ghost who specializes in robbing children. She will give a creepy and terrible laugh.

The ghost of Luochengmen is said to be a subordinate of a boy who swallowed alcohol. There is another saying: he has a scary face, but he is a god. He is a monster guarding the gate, but occasionally he plays pranks, which scares people to death. They guard the door not for human beings, but to guide those ghosts who have strayed into human settlements to the right path.

Bone girl, a woman who was insulted, bullied and ravaged at birth, became a spectre after death. Because there were only a pile of bones left, she disguised herself with human skin, and the targets of revenge were mostly men, and most of them were people with bad character.

Two women, recorded in "Nightwalk of Hundred Ghosts": women are disorderly, urinate everywhere, their husbands steal from others, their children (under 2 years old) have died at home, and those who kill their children are possessed by their children, and they will bite at the back of their necks and keep eating, and eventually they will be eaten to death by the possessed people (it can be said that it is a very dangerous monster, even if there are monsters near your place, there are monsters in famous folk stories. The mouth is said to be on the top of the head, but it is correct to grow near the back of the neck. This mouth is bigger than the front one and can eat several times the weight. Usually, the mouth is covered with hair. When no one is around, if there is food in front, it will use its hair as a tentacle and eat the food.

Zhuan, this beast occasionally goes out to make trouble when people are buried. Therefore, at that time, there was a sage in China, Fang Shixiang, dressed in bearskin and in the shape of four eyes. Before the coffin arrived at the funeral, he went to the grave and went into the cave with his brothers to beat the corners of the walls as a sign of defeating the wild animals. This is called the dangerous Shen Dao. This matter can be found in The Origin of Things.

Daocheng temple clock, a temple clock turned into a monster, specifically turning people into monks and forgetting their own past. I don't know if it's true or not.

Die for love, Lingwu also, smell a hundred miles, dead body on the ground, breathing has life. This is an anecdote recorded in Ten Kingdoms. Although the legend is exaggerated, the miraculous effect of removing rot and promoting granulation by dying for love is really unparalleled. In fact, the earliest legend of "dying for love" came from three tributes of "dying for love" in China during the period of Emperor Wu of the ancient Han Dynasty.

The flying green goblin, a monster with a beautiful face, specializes in absorbing the essence of men, which is said to be caused by the resentment of female prisoners. It is a folklore from the Buddhist "disabled woman". The so-called "flying demon", after investigation, should be a folk legend from the Buddhist "disabled woman" Dongdong, with stunning beauty, but it belongs to the dangerous level and often wanders out at night. The men she's looking for are usually ..., sucking the last drop of blood all over her body, stealing their calves and killing them.

Bird catcher, nocturnal girl, "goddess" or "ghost bird" Can absorb people's souls, live in places where phosphorus fires shine, often come out at night, put on feathers and become birds, take off feathers and become women. Legend has it that this kind of thing is made by women (so these things are all women), and they like to hold other people's children best. If a family with a baby forgets to put away the baby clothes hanging outside the house at night, once it is found, it will leave two drops of blood on it as a mark ...; But don't worry, it is said that they all came out in the evening of July and August.

Ghosts bite people, appearing in the mysterious story of Ye Jie Gao Qiao Research Institute, just like the glowing bait before the head of a fish in the deep sea. Beauty is the bait in front of the ghost head, which grows on its long tongue to lure people to save her and then eat people.

Hetong, there is a small lake near the Inagawa Shrine in Japan, called Salvation Lake. River children often appear in the lake. Because the river boy is a household name in Japan, there are many sayings. It's more common for a bird-headed man to wear tortoise shells and have a bowl-shaped concave mirror on his head, which is full of water. If he is alive, no water will die. His hands are connected, they can stretch, and they can fly with the help of fart.

Red leaf hunting, in ancient times, people called it "red leaf hunting". Watching red leaves in the wild mountains in autumn is an activity that people from the court to the common people attach great importance to. I prefer the sense of vitality of the "maple leaf in February", but when I look at the red leaves, I can only look out, not stare quietly. It is said that the color of red leaves is dyed red with the blood of maple ghosts. The deathday of the maple ghost is the second day of the Red Leaf Festival.

Drunk boy, a young and handsome monster, specializes in seducing virgins and cutting off their breasts as food. Some places say that his appearance is changing, and he is a real virgin killer. About the life experience of the boy who swallowed wine, novels such as Yu Jia Cao Zi all recorded that he was a young monk born in Vietnam. Because of his handsome appearance, he attracted jealousy, and because of many evil thoughts, he turned into a ghost. In addition, there is a saying that "Jingshan Mingshen (actually Yan Mo) is the son of Ji Jun, a nearby ethnic minority". According to the previous legend, the boy who swallowed wine was later driven out of the temple by a monk who realized his evil thoughts, thus ending his childhood life. There is also a saying that a teenager who swallowed wine and drank was also a teenager who was killed by General Yuan, and his sabre was called boy beheading. Because of this strange origin, the ceremony of boy beheading and famous sword is also called "the five swords in the world". The teenager who swallowed wine lived in the Heian Dynasty in 990 and was a famous monster that shocked Kyoto. Legend has it that a drunken boy who lives in Danbo land is entangled with a group of evil spirits. They do evil, build iron palaces privately, sneak into rich people's homes at night to steal treasures and feed on women and children. Such a thing shocked even the emperor. However, something even more terrible happened. Ikeda Yan Na's daughter is missing. The result of divination by the Yin and Yang master was taken away by the ghost of Dajiang Mountain.

Tired, in a remote mountain village, the girl Aju was suddenly possessed by a ghost and told a secret story more than ten years ago. It turned out that this possessed ghost was none other than Arjun's late mother, Tired. Tired is an ugly girl who looks like A Yan. In order to abandon her, her husband tricked her into a mountain and pushed her off a cliff. The murder case has been covered up for more than ten years, and fatigue has been suffering from the pain and hatred of death. Later, with the help of a mage, he finally got his freedom. Tired, but Aju's illness is not good. A few decades ago, there was a boy who was born disabled in the village. In order to get rid of this burden, his cruel parents pushed him into the river and drowned him.

The bride, a hundred wonders, is called Spider Woman. It's a spider in human form, seducing a man. When a man is tempted for three days, his head will be taken away and eaten. The bride Luo in the ghost night walk is an extremely dangerous monster.

In the dark night, there is often a beautifully dressed woman standing on a deserted street. If a passerby asks, "What are you doing so late?" Long-haired women will turn their heads, their whole faces are black, and their five senses can't see clearly! When people found out that a terrible hairy girl was trying to escape in panic, hairy girl stretched her hair, wrapped it around the neck of the person who was about to escape and strangled him. ...

The monster who often haunts the hot spring hotel where his daughter drowned, if you see this beautiful woman taking a bath, don't approach rashly. Maybe if she stands up, you will find that her submerged part is full of bones. ...

Qiao Ji seen in Meiji Demon is the resentment of some spoony women. Because I was infatuated with others and couldn't be with my beloved, I jumped off the bridge and committed suicide. If a person crosses the bridge at night, he will appear and lead him into the water to drown. If a woman crosses the bridge, she will be forced to drag him into the water. It is said that in Japan, women can't commit suicide easily, only by crossing the river, so this kind of monster is called the poor monster.

Specifically, Blue Lantern is not a monster, but a story-telling behavior like October Talk: most mysterious stories in Japan also happen in summer nights. Many stories of kabuki, a traditional Japanese drama, originated from legends in mysterious stories. During the Edo period (equivalent to 1603- 1867), there was a game called "Hundred Stories". Several friends got together in the middle of the night and lit many candles. Everyone took turns telling ghost stories and felt the atmosphere of terror. It is said that when the hundredth candle goes out, the real ghost will appear ... so storytellers often have a kind of vigilance in their hearts. When it's their turn to tell a story, don't be the last one, because they don't know what will happen after the hundredth story is finished. So every time I talk about the ninety-ninth, I will stop at once, and no one dares to go on. This is a ritual of collectively summoning ghosts.

Unofficial history, a tree with a face, recorded that in the Edo period, a woman beloved by a man died and was in great pain. As a result, she listened to the evil spirits and put the first woman in the backyard of the house. Forty-nine days later, a tree grew out. A hundred days later, the tree bloomed, and a year later, it was all women's faces. As a result, the government besieged the demon tree. In the end, the man disappeared into the fire with the tree with the face, which was touching.

Legend has it that a bird lays eggs on people. The eggs of this bird are smaller than human pores. It eats human internal organs as food when it is born, and finally flies out of the human body when it is empty. This is the bird inside. In addition, there is a saying that people grow into finches and are considered monsters.

Sunspot, also known as a corpse thief, is a ghost who moves in the cemetery. It steals the bodies of people who have just died and sends them to their homes to scare people. It is a kind of ghost. It likes playing pranks and sometimes only cuts off a certain part of its body, so some people call it a corpse ghost.

Sesshengshi is a famous tourist attraction in Japan. It is said that in ancient India, an Kyubi no Youko fox puzzled the king of India, making great rivers and mountains fragmented and hunted by people. Later, he fled to China, changed his human form, and was named da ji. It also destroyed a generation of dynasties, was chased by the gods of the Central Plains, and fled from the water to Japan to continue to confuse the king. But because the king at that time knew about India and China, he asked his generals to surround him and kill him, but most of the troops went. Then an enlightened monk came and said that he had come from India to kill him. The king asked him to try, and he really succeeded. The monk sealed the Kyubi no Youko fox with his own life, and turned it into a tall stone. The fox gave off poisonous gas in the stone, and people, animals and birds passing by would die. That's why it's called the life stone.

Chaos (Khaos/Chaos,): the god of chaos.

Tal talos Talas: God of the abyss of hell, son of Coase. One of the five creator gods, can be said to be the creator of the underworld, the ontology of the abyss.

Nyx: Goddess of the night, daughter of chaos. One of the five creatives, Ripas, was born on the earth (Caia). The incarnation and noumenon of night, she is an ancient and powerful god. She not only gave birth to three children with her brother, but also gave birth to a large number of gods alone.

Uranus: the god of heaven. Gaia's eldest son and husband, the first god king. Overthrown by his son.

Bendus: Poseidon, son and lover of Gaia, the earliest Poseidon.

Ourea (Ourea): Mountain God, philosopher of Gaia.

Cronus: The youngest of the twelve Titan children of Gaia and Uranus. The God of heaven and earth overthrew the Father God and became the second God King. .

Rhea: One of the twelve Titan gods, the goddess of time. Cronus's wife is the second queen of God.

Oceanus: One of the 12 Titan gods, the god of the sea and rivers. It has bred all the rivers on the earth and 3000 Poseidon.

Tethys: One of the twelve Titan gods, the goddess of the sea; Oceanus's wife.

Hyperion: One of the twelve Titan gods, the god of the bright sun. Father of the sun, moon and dawn.

Thea: One of the twelve Titan gods, the goddess in charge of wealth, light and vision; Engaged to Leon's wife.

Mnemosyne: One of the twelve Titan gods, one of the muses of poetry, the god of memory and the mother of Zeus' fifth wife The Nine Muses.

Partos: One of the Twelve Giants. The father of themis, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menotius.

Chris: One of the twelve titans, the god of growth.

Simis: One of the twelve Titan gods, the goddess of order and justice. The second wife of Zeus and the mother of three goddesses.

Phoebe: Also known as Fu Bo or Fu Bi, one of the twelve titans, the mother of the moon goddess Leto and Astria.

Coase: One of the twelve Titan gods, the god of darkness and wisdom. Phoebe's husband.

Mehlert: One of the Titan gods, one of the Titan's twelve sisters, one of the goddess of poetry, and the goddess of deep thought.

Ode: One of the Titan gods, one of the Titan's twelve sisters, one of the goddess of poetry, and the goddess of singing.

Eitner: One of the Titan gods, the twelve sisters of Titan, the Sicilian volcano goddess.

Dione: the goddess of the ice sea [another common saying is that she is the daughter of Oke Anoos and Tessie].

Adanos: One of the Titan gods, one of the twelve Titan gods, and the god of judgment.

OsTassos: One of the Titan gods, the Twelve Titan gods, the substitute god.

Andes: One of the 12 Titan gods, the God of the Andes.

Olympus: One of the twelve titans, the God of the Holy Mountain (the incarnation of the Holy Mountain of Olympus).

Atlas: Prometheus' brother. One of the highest and strongest gods. He was punished for failing to resist Zeus.

Prometheus: The son of Partos. One of the most wise gods is called a prophet. Creator and protector of mankind. Because Zeus was kept in the Caucasus Mountains, vultures pecked at his liver every day, and later he grew well again and again. After being rescued by Heracles.

Epimetheus: The brother of Prometheus. One of the stupidest gods is called "the last to know". As a result of accepting the gift of Zeus-Pandora as his wife, diseases, evils and other disasters flew out of Pandora's Box.

Menotius: The brother of Prometheus, the god of violence and anger, was struck by Zeus with lightning.

Metis: goddess of wisdom, daughter of Anoos, first wife of Zeus and mother of Athena.

Eurynome: goddess of the sea, daughter of Anoos, third wife of Zeus and mother of three goddesses.

Leto: Goddess of the night, daughter of Zeus and Phoebe, sixth wife of Zeus and mother of Apollo and themis.

Zeus: Zeus is the son of Cronus, the king of the gods in charge of the sky. In Greek mythology, the highest god in charge of lightning is also called Raytheon. With the support of his mother Rhea, he killed his father Cronus and became the third generation God King. He is extremely lewd, often cheating on his wife Hera with other goddesses and mortals, and there are countless illegitimate children.

Hera is the daughter of Cronus, the sister and wife of Zeus; She is in charge of marriage and childbirth and is the patron saint of women; Hera is elegant in temperament, beautiful in appearance and faithful to her partner. She is a well-deserved diva, but her jealousy is also world-famous. Therefore, Hera and Zeus often have fierce quarrels, but usually Zeus's sweet words can always make them reconciled.

The symbol of Hera is peacock, because this bird with colorful feathers and stars symbolizes the beautiful and spectacular night sky, and the sky is Hera's radiant face.

Poseidon: the king of the sea, the second brother of Zeus, holds a huge trident and commands all the creatures in the sea. Described as half man and half fish, it can call the shots. Violent and cruel.

Horses and cows are sacred to him.

Hades: The brother of Zeus, Poseidon and Demeter. He is in charge of the underworld. He is strong, but he is peaceful. Except for stealing Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, the goddess of harvest, as his wife, he did all kinds of evil. Favorite black, favorite sacrifice is black ewe or black bull wrapped in black gauze. Poplar is his sacred tree.

Hestia: The goddess in charge of the kitchen stove and flame. She is the elder sister of Zeus and the eldest daughter of Cronus Yulia, and is in charge of all family affairs. One of the three virgins. In Greek mythology, there is no detailed record. She is a chaste virgin goddess.

Demeter: Goddess of fertility and agriculture and forestry, daughter of kronos and Rhea, second sister and fourth wife of Zeus. She is the goddess in charge of agriculture and high yield, giving life to the earth and teaching human farming. She and Zeus gave birth to Persephone.

Ares: God of war, a cruel, cunning and irrational god who fights for war. I once had an affair with Aphrodite, the wife of the craftsman god of love and beauty, and was caught in a special net made by the craftsman god.

Athena: Wisdom and Sivir are the daughters of Zeus and Mites. She is brave, strong, kind and kind, but sometimes she is a little narrow-minded and doesn't want others to be better than her. When she was born, Zeus had a terrible headache, and then Athena split it with a big axe and jumped out with a pike in her hand and armor. She changed her name to Pallas Athena for accidentally killing her friend pallas. (Pallas Athena)

Owls with bright eyes at night, as well as cocks and poisonous snakes, are symbols of Athena, the goddess with bright eyes.

Hermes: The son of Maia, the god of wind and rain, and the daughter of Zeus and Atlas. Winged feet fly quickly, becoming messengers of the gods in the sky, then protectors of travelers, businessmen and thieves, and often protectors of mortals. It is the cleverest and most cunning god.

He is agile and elegant, wearing winged sandals, wearing a low-crowned hat with wings, and holding a magic circle coiled by two snakes.

Hephaestus: Son of Zeus and Hera. Being ugly and lame is a great failure of the beautiful gods! Although she is ugly, she is gentle and loves peace, and is very popular with people in heaven.

Apollo: The god of archery and light, the son of Zeus and Leto, the twin brother of the moon god and the hunting goddess themis, and one of the twelve Greek gods, also known as Vulcan. In charge of lighting, medicine, literature, poetry and music.

The laurel is his sacred tree, and his favorite pets are dolphins and crows.

Avelotte aphrodite): The goddess of love and beauty, Uranus's penis was thrown into the sea of love and was born from the waves. Her sweet words can fool all gods and people. She loves to laugh and has infinite charm, and smart people will lose their sense of proportion.

Myrtle is her sacred tree, and pigeons are her favorite birds. Swan and sparrow are also very popular.

Themis: the goddess of hunting, midwifery and the moon. Themis is the twin sister of Apollo and one of the three virgins. So it is also called the patron saint of virgins. She is the owner of wild animals, the main hunter in heaven, and the third moon god in Greek mythology.

Cypress is her sacred tree, and deer is her favorite pet.

Dionysus: Dionysus and carnival god, the son of Zeus and a mortal woman Semele, is the only official god with mortal blood; Invented wine and popularized the cultivation of grapes. His dual personality can bring joy and intoxication, but at the same time it is cruel and irritable-just like wine.