Kitsunebi (狐火) is an atmospheric ghost light told about in legends all across Japan outside Okinawa Prefecture. They are also called "hitobosu", "hitomoshi"...
16 KB (1,953 words) - 09:34, 24 June 2024
tama (ほしのたま, lit. 'star balls'). Tales describe these as glowing with kitsunebi. Some stories identify them as magical jewels or pearls. When not in human...
65 KB (7,276 words) - 15:50, 9 November 2024
the janjanbi, and the tenka among others. There is a theory that the kitsunebi is also a kind of onibi, but there is also the opinion that strictly speaking...
13 KB (1,942 words) - 17:47, 25 September 2024
(Amasaki book) Chapter 16 They are frequently confused with onibi and kitsunebi, but since hitodama are considered to be the "appearance of souls that...
7 KB (856 words) - 07:00, 4 April 2024
Tottori Prefecture, among other places, when atmospheric ghost lights (kitsunebi) are seen in the countryside at night, it is called "kitsune no yomeiri...
31 KB (3,921 words) - 01:08, 12 March 2024
it in two in the process. She retains one half but loses it later to Kitsunebi. She is eventually attacked and mortally wounded by Kawahori and dies...
27 KB (3,114 words) - 21:25, 30 October 2024
they drove it away by striking it with the oar, and were able to escape. Kitsunebi List of legendary creatures from Japan St. Elmo's fire Will-o'-the-wisp...
4 KB (506 words) - 21:32, 12 November 2024
Morag (Mull Theatre), and Tam O'Shanter (Arches). She was co-director of Kitsunebi whose first collaboration, Open Grave, premiered in 2007 and returned...
2 KB (156 words) - 11:09, 18 January 2024
on the same novel Foxfire, North Carolina, a small U.S. town Fox-fire (kitsunebi), glowing balls carried by kitsune (foxes) in Japanese folklore The Diavik...
1 KB (203 words) - 02:12, 31 December 2023
Cut Fire! Foxfire Kin'emon!" Transliteration: "Honoo Kirisaku Samurai! Kitsunebi no Kin'emon!" (Japanese: 炎切り裂く侍! 狐火の錦えもん!) Tetsuya Endō Tomohiro Nakayama...
86 KB (5,927 words) - 00:49, 30 October 2024