Japanese Ghost Stories - Mujina and the Faceless Ones

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Japan, Ghosts, Ghost-stories, Japanese-ghosts, Storytelling, Mujina, Kwaiden, Lafcadio-hearn

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Ghost Stories kept the people cool back in Old Japan before electric fans and central air.

Cold sweats, icy fingers down the spine, and blood turned to ice in the veins by chilling stories of the supernatural were just the thing for hot summer nights.

Here I retell a story called "Mujina and the Faceless Ones." This story is one of the collections of ghost stories in Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaiden.

I goofed up and called the man in the story Mujina but in fact this is what Hearn called the ghoulish antagonists in this short story.

Mujina is actually the name for badgers who in Japanese folklore could play tricks like the one in this story. However, the type of yokai (Japanese monsters/ghosts/devils) is Noppera-bo - humans (if you can call them such) with no faces who delight in scaring people.

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  1. By: RoninDave
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  4. Added :19-Aug-09
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  • The only thing I ...

    The only thing I don't get is why be scared of her? If she wanted to hurt him, she had quite an oppertunity and she didn't.

    By DragonOfBlueFire [Affiliate User] 1255991386
  • I've heard a few of ...

    I've heard a few of your stories and I'm FREEZING! It may be october, but I know this room hasn't gotten colder in the last 20 minutes. :) I'm writing this BEFORE listening to this story, and if I like it you will have a new subscriber!

    By DragonOfBlueFire [Affiliate User] 1255990989
  • Great job with the ...

    Great job with the story-telling! It's good to hear the original Hearn version, as everyone here is so accustomed to the Waialae Drive-In version, and have no idea about this one. x)

    By Doctor1297 [Affiliate User] 1255509992
  • I've greatly ...

    I've greatly enjoyed all these stories, but this is definitely my favorite...so far.

    By DNAdamsEdict [Affiliate User] 1253679848
  • another good one:)

    another good one:)

    By RoyElvisBand [Affiliate User] 1252484514
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