Tag: Japanese Folklore
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Zashiki Warashi (座敷童子)
They aren’t elves. #8 of my pixiv Charity Santa stories. On pixiv On AO3 Story: “Don’t touch; those,” I snapped and my grown daughter’s fingers snapped away from the black sesame cookies. Children! I shouldn’t have to tell them. They should ask. I wouldn’t have dared when I was growing up. “They are not for…
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The Messiah (救世主)
She had come. In the hills, the full moon shone silver, and “The Chosen” heard her tremulous horn. The butcher’s apprentice, “divorced” woman, and outcast “witch”, raised their heads. Madame Defarge and Sakura Sōgorō looked up from their work. The Jacquerie, Mau Mau, and 貞享騒動 listened. The pariah, the scorned, the forgotten, all heard and…
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Yanagi-onna (柳女)
My heart cried out, though no sound passed my lips. There she was. Like she was every night, under the willows. Her baby’s screams were barely audible over the howl of the wind. The willow branches whipped, leaving red welts on her white flesh, tearing her kimono. Then inevitablely they wrapped around her neck. She…