About Iso'onna

About Iso'onna

Halloween is just around the corner so let's talk about something similar to a vampire. Blood sucking yōkai is rare in Japanese Folklore, but there is one kind of vampire-like (in terms of sucking the victims blood) yōkai indigenous throughout Kyūshū Region [九州地方] called Iso'onna [磯女] (blow) (or Isohime [磯姫] including other regional variations).

About Iso'onna

Generally, Iso'onna is described as a anthropomorphic, serpentine yōkai with a women-like appearance with long dark hair, but in most cases, observers fails to distinguish her with any ordinary coastal rock due to her elusiveness when lurking near or in the ocean for hunting her victims. ①

Similar legend ① is also told in Amakusa City [天草市] (Kumamoto Prefecture). Locals are warned not to sleep in a fishing boat with the fishing net still casted on its sides because Iso'onna would use that net to climb onboard to suck the blood of sleeping fisherman using her hair.

While she does possess a Siren like quality as well. A legend ② from Minami-shimabara City [南島原市] (Nagasaki Prefecture) tells a story of a man spotting a woman at the coast who was idly looking at the tides. Then as soon as the man called her out as he approached her, the woman suddenly turned around and after making an ear piercing screech, she wrapped her long body around the man and began draining all the from him via her long dark hair. This is the reason why the locals are warned to not approach a woman near the coast especially during the night of New Years and Obon ③.

In a particular case ④, the locals of Ojika Town [小値賀町] (Kitamatsu'ura Dist. [北松浦郡], Nagasaki Prefecture) believes that the true identity of Iso'onna are the souls lost at sea who appears on the surface on a calm day; begging to return the souls within the sea back to the land.

Meanwhile, the legend ② of a perhaps identical yōkai called Isohime [磯女] from Nagashima Town [長島町] (Izumi Dist. [出水郡], Kagoshima Prefecture) is told to not only attack anyone near sea coasts to suck-out their blood, but some may die only by looking at her even a glimpse.

Sources:

1. "Yōkai-jiten" [妖怪事典] (2000) by Kenji Murakami [村上 健司](1968-present)

2. "Sōgō-nihon-minzoku-goi" (1st Edition) [綜合日本民俗語彙 (第1巻)] (1955) by Tokihiko Ōtō [大藤 時彦] (1902-1990) & et al

3. "Gensō-dōbutsu-jiten" [幻想動物事典] (1997) by Takumi Kusano [草野 巧] (n/a)

4. "Jōmin: Gotōrettō-ojikashima Chōsahōkokusho" [常民: 五島列島小値賀島 調査報告書] (1963) by Chūō University's Society of Flolkloristics [中央大学民俗研究会]

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Call me clover or zen 🍀 Head of a near abandoned coven🍀Im not wiccan🍀 He/She/Ey 🍀 23 yrs old 🍀 two spirit and Genderfluid🍀 butch bisexual 🍀 Alloaro 🍀 my main devotion is to hera but i also work with Artemis, hermes, and many others 🍀 Zeus stans can die off thx 🍀 sigil/pendulum/card readings: open 🍀 somewhat of a sigil blog somewhat of a general witchy blog 🍀 Hellenistic/ astrological/polytheistic/native-religious wizard, druid, witchdoctor and tribal healer 🍀 Inuit/metis/Cherokee mixed, not raised in culture and trying to reconnect to those roots as well as focus on my practice more🍀 i do not follow the 3 folds law, i support curse usage, you cant fuck and have a relationship with a god, you have no right to tell me how to practice, my magic is vaild without peer review, paganism dosent have dogma, i will always support patron gods/goddesses, Persephone was raped by hades so stop acting like their beauty and the beast and fuck off if you villianize the goddesses who are mothers, ur sus. No full religion is culturally exclusive, only certain practices and certain titles are. Cryptid worship is vaild🍀 always supporting jewish and muslim witches 🍀 dni: racist, terf/transphobe/nbphobe/, tru/med, proship, anti-choice, fascist

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