Published on November 12, 2018
Nobusuma
- Tobikura
Regions of expansion
Japan
Description
In Japanese mythology, a creature that feeds on blood and fire in the form of a giant flying squirrel, which becomes an overly old bat. If she is not hungry, she simply swoops down on a lantern or torch to extinguish it, and then flies back into the night sky with a terrible cry of "ha-a, ha-a!"