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Mar 25, 2020 The following is an exclusive excerpt from The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink.The creators of the hit Welcome to Night Vale podcast have released their second novel exploring the history of the spooky town. Everybody knows of the Faceless Old Woman who Secretly Lives in Your Home, but nobody knows where she came from. The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in your Home is a life-spanning first-person account of how the Faceless Old Woman got to Night Vale. Her story is tragic, is about what a life of revenge can do to a person, and has MANY exciting twists. Even though her origin is.
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Depiction of a noppera-bō (by in his Otogi Boko, early )The Noppera-bō ( のっぺらぼう), or faceless, is a (legendary creature) that looks like a human but has no face. They are sometimes mistakenly referred to as a, an old Japanese word for a. Although the mujina can assume the form of the other, noppera-bō are usually disguised as humans. Such creatures were thought to sometimes transform themselves into noppera-bō in order to frighten humans. Used the animals' name as the title of his story about faceless monsters, probably resulting in the misused terminology.Noppera-bō are known primarily for frightening humans, but are usually otherwise harmless. They appear at first as ordinary human beings, sometimes impersonating someone familiar to the victim, before causing their features to disappear, leaving a blank, smooth sheet of skin where their face should be. Contents.In legends Often, a noppera-bō would not actually exist, but was the disguise of a, a fox, or a.
In Showa 4 (1767), in the collection Shinsetsu Hyakumonogatari, there were stories that told of how in Nijugawara in Kyoto (near the Nijo-ohashi bridge in the, ), a monster called noppera-bō appeared and those that were attacked by it would have several thick hairs attached to their clothing, indicating that it was the disguise of some kind of animal. However, sometimes their real identity is not known, and in the 3 (1663) kaidan collection Sorori Monogatari, it was written that in the Oike-cho of the capital (now Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto), there appeared a noppera-bō with a height of about 7 shaku (about 2.1 meters), but nothing was written about what its true identity was. They are also said to appear in folktales in the and, among other places. The Noppera-bō and the Koi Pond This tale recounts a lazy fisherman who decided to fish in the ponds near the palace.
Despite being warned by his wife about the pond being sacred and near a, the fisherman went anyway. On his way to the pond, he is warned by another fisherman not to go there, but he again ignores the warning. Once at the spot, he is met by a beautiful young woman who pleads with him not to fish in the pond. He ignores her and, to his horror, she wipes off her face.
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Rushing home to hide, he is confronted by what seems to be his wife, who chastises him for his wickedness before wiping off her facial features as well.The Mujina of the Akasaka Road The most famous story recollection of the Noppera-bō comes from 's book titled Mujina. The story of a man who travelled along the road to, he came across a young woman in a remote location near Kunizaka hill, crying and forlorn.
After attempting to console the young woman and offer assistance, she turned to face him, startling him with the blank countenance of a faceless ghost. Frightened, the man proceeded down the road for some time, until he came across a vendor.
Stopping to relax, the man told the vendor of his tale, only to recoil in horror as the soba vendor stroked his face, becoming a noppera-bō himself. It turns out that all of these noppera-bō were really just in disguise.There are other tales about noppera-bō, from a young woman rescued from bandits by a on horseback whose face disappears; to stories of nobles heading out for a tryst with another, only to discover the is being impersonated by a noppera-bō.Recent reports Although most tales of noppera-bō predate the 20th century, there are exceptions, both in Japan itself as well as locations where Japanese have emigrated, most notably the U.S. Among the most recent reports:. On May 19, 1959, reporter Bob Krauss reported a sighting of a mujina at the Waialae Drive-In Theatre in Kahala. Krauss reported that the witness watched a woman combing her hair in the women's restroom, and when the witness came close enough, the mujina turned, revealing her featureless face. The witness was reported to have been admitted to the hospital for a nervous breakdown. Noted Hawaiian historian, folklorist, and author, in a 1981 radio interview dismissed the story as rumor, only to be called by someone claiming to be the witness, who gave more details on the event, including the previously unreported detail that the mujina in question had red hair.
Grant has also reported on a number of other mujina sightings in Hawaii, from to. See also., a Japanese urban legend about a disfigured woman., a fictional supernatural character with no facial features., a 2001 Japanese animated film featuring a character known as 'No-Face'References.
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