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Originally posted by Fatum:
you know, you can bring mrs 7-11 and mini 7-11 along also ...
mini 7-11 been to baden's already the last time wat .... at least after she's met us, she knows where you're hanging out when you say pork knuckles and beer ... if not she'd think you went out to play somewhere less wholesome ...
Edited by Lin Yu 25 Aug `08, 12:24PM
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A bakeneko (化け猫? "monster cat") is, in Japanese folklore, a cat with supernatural abilities akin to those of the fox or raccoon dog. A cat may become a bakeneko in a number of ways: it may reach a certain age, be kept for a certain number of years, grow to a certain size, or be allowed to keep a long tail. In the last case, the tail forks in two and the bakeneko is then called a nekomata (猫又? ,猫叉, or 猫股 "forked cat"). This superstition may have some connection to the breeding of the Japanese Bobtail.
A bakeneko will haunt any household it is kept in, creating ghostly fireballs, menacing sleepers, walking on its hind legs, changing its shape into that of a human, and even devouring its own mistress in order to shapeshift and take her place. When it is finally killed, its body may be as much as five feet in length. It also poses a danger if allowed into a room with a fresh corpse; a cat is believed to be capable of reanimating a body by jumping over it.
Edited by Lin Yu 20 Aug `08, 8:20PM
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Bakeneko
Set in a time period decidedly later than the previous arcs -implied to be in the 1920s - the Medicine Seller boards a train with several characters similar to the first Bakeneko story (who might be possible reincarnations of their former counterparts). When the train crashes into a girl on the tracks, they are all gathered together in one cart which mysteriously moves by itself. Paralleling the Bakeneko arc of Ayakashi, this is the arc where the Medicine Seller is actually seen to get wounded during the battle with the bakeneko, because the bakeneko struck before he could release his weapon.
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A nue (鵺) is a legendary creature found in Japanese folklore. It is described as having the head of a monkey, the body of a raccoon dog, the legs of a tiger, and a snake as a tail. According to the legend, a nue can transform into a black cloud and fly. Due to its appearance, it is sometimes referred to as a Japanese chimera[citation needed]. Nue are supposed to be bringers of misfortune and illness.[citation needed]
According to The Tale of the Heike, Emperor Konoe, the Emperor of Japan, became sick after having terrible nightmares every night, and a dark cloud appeared at two o'clock in the morning on roof of the palace in Kyoto during the summer of 1153. The story says that the samurai Minamoto no Yorimasa staked-out the roof one night and fired an arrow into the cloud, out of which fell a dead nue. Yorimasu then supposedly sank the body in the Sea of Japan.
In a local expansion of the story, the nue's corpse floated into a certain bay, and the locals, fearing a curse, buried it. A mound which exists today is supposed to be this grave.[1]
Nue
Edited by Lin Yu 20 Aug `08, 6:44PM
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