🏮Yokai/Japanese Terms🏮

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Oni:
A kind of yokai/demon/ogre/troll in Japanese folklore.

Onryo:
Literally meaning "vengeful or wrathful spirits," Onryo refers to ghosts that are capable of hurting or killing enemies and causing natural disasters to the land of the living.

Yokai:
A class of supernatural monsters/spirits in Japanese folklore.

Yurei:
Figures in Japanese folklore analogous to the Western model of ghosts. The name consists of two kanji, 幽 (yū), meaning "faint" or "dim" and 霊 (rei), meaning "soul" or "spirit".

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