num_pages: 418
description: Everyone has heard of vampires and werewolves but how many have heard of the rokuro-kubi the tsuchinoki or the sagari? Japan has a wealth of ghosts and monsters collectively called yokai which are totally unknown in the West. The bizarre and wonderful folklore of Japan includes giant corpse-eating rabbits flaming pigs that steal human genitals perverse water goblins blood sucking trees a dragon that impregnates women cats who animate dead bodies a zombie whale and a huge flesh eating sea cucumber that grows from a pair of discarded knickers!
language: English
title: The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia
publisher: cfz