kitsunebi
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Legends by area
- In Ōji Inari
- Other places
- True identity
- See also
- Notes
- References
thumb|The Bakemono [[Tsukushi Emaki, author unknown (late Edo period)]]
Kitsunebi (狐火) is an atmospheric ghost light told about in legends all across Japan outside Okinawa Prefecture. They are also called "hitobosu", "hitomoshi" (火点し), and "rinka" (燐火).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kitsunebi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.