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Bakeneko- Moster/Ghost Cat

Bakeneko are cats who have lived longed enough to obtain supernatural powers. They start to walk on their hind legs and can sometimes get to be as large as a human. They possess great shape-shifting abilities and frequently disguise themselves as smaller cats or humans – sometimes even their own masters. While in disguise, they like to dress up as humans with a towel wrapped around their head and dance around merrily. Many learn to speak human languages. They can eat things that are much bigger than they are, and even poisonous things, without any difficulty at all.

It is even possible for a bakeneko to eat its own master and then take his form, living on in his place. If they do not kill their owners, they often bring down great curses and misfortune upon them. They can summon ghostly fireballs and are known to accidentally start house fires, their tails acting like torches on any flammable materials in the house. They also have the disturbing ability to reanimate fresh corpses and use them like puppets for their own nefarious purposes. They are generally a menace to any house they live in or near.

You can read more about the bakeneko here on Yokai.com! Here and here are more articles on the Bakeneko. Here is a page on the Bakeneko Yujo- the cat girls, esentially, and where they originated from. An obake is a shape-shifter in Japanese Folklore, and here is a page on the bakeneko as an obake. There is also a Bakeneko fesitval in Japan! Here are the episodes of Ayakashi on the Bakeneko! 

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