Hōsō-Babaa

Hōsō-Babaa (疱瘡婆 Hōsō-Babaa) is a Japanese yōkai.
==Appearance==
In Mizuki's illustrations, she takes a horse-like form, with one eye, two horns, whiskers, and a belt of skulls.
==Personality==
==History==
===1985 Anime===
Hōsō-Babaa appears among the yōkai scaring the human passangers of the Ghost Train.
==Legend==
Hōsō-Babaa is a yōkai mentioned in the book Oshu Hanashi by Tadano Makatsu. She caused a plague of smallpox and then ate the corpses of people who died of smallpox.
In the early bunka era, there was a large outbreak of smallpox in the city of Oshu, at the same time, grave robbing and vandalizing graves was common, and thus this legend appeared.
==Trivia==
*In episode 12 of the Jigoku Arc, Jakotsu-Babaa transforms into a form whose design comes from Mizuki's illustration of Jakotsu-Babaa.
==References==
==Navigation==
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