Tokoroth

A Tokoroth or little stinker, plural tokoroth before the Soul Eater lingo jump, and tokoroths after it, is one of the most gruesome and nasty things you will hear about in a children's book.
Tokoroths are made by capturing a child (parents may believe the child was eaten by a bear or whatever), leaving the poor kid underground unexposed to anyone for a couple weeks, limiting the child's diet, and putting a demon inside its walking corpse. Now you have a personal child slave. Tenris had a couple, Seshru wanted to make Renn into one, and Eostra just made hers quicker with a new method.
Tokoroths are possibly inspired by (I.e. blatant ripoffs of) the similarly-named tokoloshes of Zulu legend, which are child-sized, shriveled, blind zombies controlled by a sorcerer, reported to kill people in the night for their master's revenge. They can also turn invisible by drinking water (now you wish you could do that as well for sure... I might as well be a fucking psychic), which explains how one managed to hide in Asrif's boat. The Eskimo tupilaq may have been an inspiration as well (the Nanuak is literally just the Inua, the Sea Mother is called Sedna, the Hidden People are the Shadow People (Tariaksuit), and whatever torak encountered in that one river probably were not hidden people but qalupaliks.
yeah the anonymous edit was actually me, sorry to my future self -old chowg
P.S. Why do these pages keep getting linked to the fucking "amogus wiki?"