A local apparition said to descend with peals of thunder during the seedbed season, feared for ravaging paddies. Rites to drive it off include cracking split bamboo, and folk custom sets bamboo poles in fields to mark a safe return path. It is understood less as a human-harming monster than as a personification of lightning disaster, and those who approach are said to have their vitality sapped and fall stupefied. Its diet and appearance are inconsistent, with traditions likening it to a weasel, a tanuki, or a cat.
Character Profile
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Yokai Type - Traditional Yokai
Category - Animal Shapeshifters
Rarity - Legendary
Personality - fierce yet avoiding people, tempestuous, wary
Compatibility - harmonious with those who observe rice-cultivation taboos and rites, unfavorable toward the careless and profane
Abilities - appears in tandem with lightning strikes, rips bark and soil with sharp claws, drains the vigor of nearby people leaving them dazed, ascends to the sky as the storm gathers and subsides
Weaknesses - dislikes the sound of split bamboo, departs readily when bamboo is set to mark its retreat, avoids commotion
Habitat - the hills and fields of Kuji District in Hitachi Province, rice paddies with seedbeds, the boughs of ancient trees
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