There is a large fox shrine near Kyoto though, and I saw a small fox shrine in Kanazawa on the Sea of Japan.
Foxes can possess a human by slipping up underneath the human’s fingernails, in the gap.
The rural area of the central Philippines I lived in for awhile was rife with stories about vampires. It freaked people out when I would sit outside at night and read by candlelight because a candle buring outside the home at night supposedly draws the vampires down from the hills.
Here’s s’more international Vampire species.
It even includes the Japanese “Kappa,” which always reminded me more of trolls, than vampires.
And, off the topic of vampires, there are even Scorpion[url=http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/scorpion_men.html]Men from the middle east.
Yeah, my mistake. They do only attack when provoked. Guess I’ve been watching too many Bollywood films which distort everything.
My grandmother had a whole family of superstitions based on snakes etc, including something about a shrine (something to do with snakes I beleive) near our ancestral home that all male sons of male sons have to visit to avoid calamity falling on our family. Very very strange…