Modern version: he makes sound of a microwave ping after wetting your hard kitchen floor. Loosing footing is inevitable as you go to investigate. Result.
In Japanese Folklore, Azukiarai is a demon who spends his time washing Adzuki beans by mountain streams. Hungry travelers drawn by the "shoki shoki" sound of the beans inevitably lose their footing and fall in the stream (Illustration Shigeru Mizuki)pic.twitter.com/gNBTcGi82e
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What’s up w these extremely specific folk tales, next I’ll see “in Japanese folklore the Umakami is a horse headed demon who lures lonely equestrians to their grave with the sound of his shrill whinnying”
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Japanese folktales ARE awesome, go out and read some. Put Grimm bros. to shame.
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Theodoro Braga – Sacy Pererê, 1923 *Saci Perere are brazilian tricksters with only one leg and black skin that controlls the wind. They wear a red cap and travels inside a small wind whirl. If you steal his cap you can controll him. Their funny demeanor might become dangerouspic.twitter.com/LjpIHG6lLh
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cool beans
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Hard to resist the shoki shoki sound
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According to Japanese folklore, wherever you go, whatever you do, there's a highly specialized demon, witch or evil spirit with a plan to harm or kill you.
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As minor demons go, that's...pretty damn minor
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Anyone ever notice that in eastern folklore all the demons and spirits have jobs or at least some kind of basic task? Demons and spirits in the west are just hanging around waiting to be dicks.
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Next time you wake up in the night, listen carefully for “shoki shoki” in the distance.
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I love it!
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thinking about thos beans
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Confirming that adzuki are old-world beans and not a recent introduction
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Clearly revenge for all the times as a child he was told he wouldn't amount to a hill of beans.
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Earplugs.
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What a nice monster washing food ^^
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Japanese folks folklore demons were all made by one man who was told that he needed to come up with a new demon idea every day for a year. This was day 256. He ran out of ideas very fast.
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