Greetings yokai fans!
I have to admit that this yokai was a little hard to do, because centipedes freak me out. Especially the centipedes over here, which give me actual nightmares. If you can picture a huge, think centipede over 8 inches long with bright orange legs and and head, you’ll have some idea. Also, they are fast, and very aggressive, so they will actually chase after humans! They can’t be killed easily. Even if you cut them up, they will still run around for 30 minutes or more. You can burn them, boil them, but they just don’t die. And if you squash them, they release pheromones that attract more of them to come. They like to hide in shoes, bedsheets, toilets, bathtubs, and clothes drawers… so basically anywhere that you are most vulnerable. They also drop down from the ceiling onto people. They are venomous, and their bites are extremely painful. If a big one bites you on the chest or head, you have to go to the hospital.
So yeah… there is at least one thing I don’t like about Japan.
On the plus side, today we get to hear about our old from Fujiwara no Hidesato, who you may remember from the Dodomeki and Taira no Masakado entries!
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