Kyōkotsu

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What Wikipedia says

Kyōkotsu (狂骨, kyōkotsu) est un yōkai du folklore japonais de l'ère Edo. Il apparaît pour la première fois dans le troisième volume du Konjaku hyakki shūi (Pluie) en 1781. C'est l'esprit d'un homme mort dans un puits à eau.

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Image: Toriyama Sekien (鳥山石燕, Japanese, *1712, †1788), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.