2018-06-05

kumo spider legends

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kumo 蜘蛛と伝説 Legends about spiders / Spinnen

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. kumo 蜘蛛 spider, Spinne .
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kumobi 蜘蛛火, lit. "spider fire"

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Tsukioka Kōgyo 月岡耕漁 Tsukioka Kogyo (1869-1927)

. tsuchigumo 土蜘蛛 earth spider, ground spider - Yokai .



Tsuchigumo zooshi 土蜘蛛草紙 Tsuchigumo scroll of the Heian period


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oogumo 大蜘蛛(おおぐも)Ogumo, the Big Spider



『曽呂利物語』より「足高蜘の変化の事」
寛文時代の奇談集『曽呂利物語』には「足高蜘の変化の事」と題し、ある山野に住む男のもとに夜、大蜘蛛が60歳ほどの老婆に化け、髪を振り乱して襲いかかり、男に刀で足を斬り落とされたという話がある。
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............................................................................... Ishikawa 石川県
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七尾市 Nanao city

. tengu no hi 天狗の火 Tengu fire / kumo no hi 蜘蛛の火 spider fire .



............................................................................... Miyazaki 宮崎県
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飫肥 Obi city

. spider at the deathbed .




............................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
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越後 Echigo

People say that centipedes and spiders are killed by putting spittle on them.



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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
137 to collect (00)
05 鰻 蜘蛛 (00) unagi eel and spider

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4 comments:

Gabi Greve said...

Legend from Shiga 滋賀県
. hinotama, hi no tama 火の玉と伝説 Legends about fire balls .
Around 3 in the morning at the beginning of the month, a ship was heading to the lake. From the East came a fire ball and stopped right above the mast.
A little later a bit of wind came and the fire ball seemed to ride the wind and blew away.
Pondering about this happening, the men thought it must have been a group of spiders.
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https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2020/02/shiotsu-kaido-highway.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Legend from Gifu 神岡町 Kamioka town
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kumo katsura 蛛蜘桂 Katsura tree and spiders
- - - - - katsura 桂 Japanese Judas tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Around 1580, on a day with heavy snow, a warlord was bewitched by 山蜘蛛 the mountain spiders.
He stayed under a Katsura tree, because he thought it was a house, but later many of his servants were found dead under the tree.
Now the villagers fear this tree.
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https://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.com/2020/03/ooyuki-heavy-snow-legends.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Legend from Nagano 南佐久郡 Minami-Saku district 北相木村 Kita-Aiki village
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Kumogafuchi no kyozuka くもが淵の経塚 Sutra mound at the Spider Riverpool
Upstream along 相木川 the river Aikigawa there is 白岩部落 a hamlet called Shiraiwa, where many fish lived.
Usually there were large spider webs and people did not go there.
But one day a man went there for fishing. The lord of the pool, 大蜘蛛 a huge spider, appeared, wound a thread around his leg and wanted to pull him inside. But thanks to his fishing rod being pulled in instead, the man was saved.
Afterthe villgers chanted Sutras by the riverside, the spider webs did not appear any more.
Now there is 経塚 a Sutra mound where they buried the scriptures to memorate the event.
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https://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.com/2020/03/kyozuka-sutra-mound-legends.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Legend from Kochi
中村市 Nakamura city // 魔神 devil


meshi o kuwan kaka 飯を食わん嬶 a wife that did not eat rice
A greedy man got a wife that did not eat any rice. He thought that was strange, hid in the straw and observed her.
At lunchtime he saw her cook a large portion of rice and eat it with two mouths at her head.
That day when the man was in the bath, the wife took the bath tub and carried it deep into the mountain. The husband got hold of a branch and jumped out of the tub.
Now he saw that a devil had shape-shifted into a kumo クモ spider and would come back in the evening.
That evening he made a fire in the stove and when he saw the spider coming down, he burned it.
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https://japanshrinestemples.blogspot.com/2020/03/majin-akushin-devil-legends.html
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