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In Japanese folklore, Hitodama (Japanese 人魂; meaning "human soul") are balls of fire that mainly float in the middle of night.[1] They are said to be "souls of the dead that have separated from their bodies,"[1] which is where their name comes from. [Hitodama TRANSLATION: human soul HABITAT: graveyards and near the recently deceased DIET: none ]

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Rokurokubi are a type of yokai; Japanese supernatural creatures of various origins and traits. They are perfectly human during the day, but their necks can stretch up to incredibly long lengths at night, and which the rokurokubi will make use of to drain life out of passer us or just give them a good scare. Sometimes the rokurokubi is unaware of its nature as a yokai, leading to a situation where the yokai just thinks that it has a very weird dream every night, where it sees the town at...

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