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The Japanese Yōkai Folklore

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Conspiracies & Myths

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What if You Eat the Head Fruit?

This week's episode features aro kuro kubai, or ku uba. The yumauba used to be humans but became evil and live on the side of roads. They build their homes so they can attract travellers that are tired for a place to stay. And if they take them up on that offer, they turn into their true evil witch form at night. This is probably the scariest one. By day it appears as a woman. She eats, she drinks, she laughs. But by night, as when her curse takes effect, this is how she becames yoki. Her body sleeps, but her head is awake. And slithers, does

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