Shape-shifting Yokai

A flying bolt of white cloth from Kagoshima that suffocates its victims.

A spider become woman, luring men with beauty before binding them in silk.

A supernatural otter yokai that haunts Japan's rivers and ponds. After living many years, ordinary otters were believed to gain shapeshifting powers, transforming into humans to play tricks on unsuspecting villagers.

A fox spirit growing more tails with age: divine messenger and wily trickster.

An old Japanese term for badger or tanuki that became associated with a shape-shifting yokai capable of assuming human form. The mujina is especially famous through the "noppera-bo" (faceless ghost) tales popularized by Lafcadio Hearn.

An old cat with a forked tail; shapeshifter, fire-wielder, animator of corpses.

A woman by day whose neck extends impossibly at night, or whose head detaches.

A trickster raccoon dog that belly-drums and conjures illusory gold from leaves.