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25: 328:, comes across a young woman in a remote location near Kunizaka hill, crying and forlorn. After he attempts to console the young woman and offer assistance, she turns to face him, startling him with the blank countenance of a faceless ghost. Frightened, the man proceeds down the road for some time, until he comes across a 206:
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.
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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
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vendor. Stopping to relax, the man tells the vendor of his encounter, only to recoil in horror as the soba vendor strokes his face, becoming a
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used the animals' name as the title of his story about faceless monsters, probably resulting in the misused terminology.
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are usually disguised as humans. Such creatures were thought to sometimes transform themselves into
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that looks like a human but has no face. They are sometimes mistakenly referred to as a
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Discussion of the confusion of terms brought about by the titles of Hearn's stories.
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webpage regarding the 1959 and 1981 reports of the Waialae Mujina
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would not actually exist, but was the disguise of a
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