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Kunekune is a terrifying modern Japanese yokai seen as a wriggling white figure in summer fields. Looking closely at it causes instant, incurable madness.
Betobeto-san is an invisible Japanese yokai that follows lonely travelers at night. Hear mysterious footsteps? Just step aside and politely let it pass by!