Jikininki
Sign in to saveappear in Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) as corpse-eating spirits. In Japanese Buddhism, jikininki ("human-eating ghosts"; pronounced shokujinki in modern Japanese), are similar to Gaki/Hungry ghost; the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat humans and human corpses.
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It is catalogued under topics including Buddhist legendary creatures, Ghouls and Japanese ghosts.
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appear in Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) as corpse-eating spirits. In Japanese Buddhism, jikininki ("human-eating ghosts"; pronounced shokujinki in modern Japanese), are similar to Gaki/Hungry ghost; the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat humans and human corpses.
A similar story can be found as "Aozukin" in Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari from 1776.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jikininki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.