I love the old folklore of Japan. Maybe that's why I like Inu-Yasha so much. You can get a peek into what the real people of that era were like by looking at their popular beliefs, especially the scary ones!
The one-eyed cactus-thing is actually a one-eyed, one-legged umbrella-thing. Ordinarily this is a comical monster (purposefully scary-funny). This is a scarier version: outside it looks goofy, but the umbrella opens up and a ghostly black figure kills you with poison spikes!
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Date: 2003-09-09 08:00 am (UTC)The one-eyed cactus-thing is actually a one-eyed, one-legged umbrella-thing. Ordinarily this is a comical monster (purposefully scary-funny). This is a scarier version: outside it looks goofy, but the umbrella opens up and a ghostly black figure kills you with poison spikes!