Shrine maiden looking for stolen kids sounds like a cool plot of a story. She keeps the belief of mysticism up while just secretly being a good detective
In Brazil "Spirited Away" was translated as "Chihiro's trip"(A viagem de Chihiro). We don't have a word for being kidnapped by a god, but we have the legend of the of the Sack man/Bag man, a man with a sack on his back who carries naughty children away. The legend evolved with time: Originally he only took the children away to a far land, then he sold the children to charcoal mines to work as slaves, and now the works for an international children's organ smuggling gang.
Eai Brasileiro, tudo bem? Eu gosto do português brasileiro; estou aprendendo ele e japonês no mesmo tempo. :) In France, it's the same title as in Brazil: "Le Voyage de Chihiro".
Mine was Ninja Scrolls and Ghost in the Shell. I also recall watching Akira, but it is very blur to me. I need to rewatch that one, just for the historical/social commentary aspects of it.
Story: Unknown man in strange vehicle: "come with me I'll show you many wondrous places" Kid is hesitant. Man offers cookies ... adventures ensue. Reality: Body found 3 months later in the woods.
All jokes aside- one thing I actually genuinely love about this channel is how you manage to go into the details of every possible little thing. You focus on the main theme, sure, but you also give tiny additional bits of information that add more detail to the story. Keep up the good work! ♪
There is a similar folktales in the Nepali Gorkha clans where it is said that the forest gods abduct young children and raise them teaching them mystic rituals and blessing them with power only to return them to society once they have passed puberty and have completed their mystic education. Nice work Lord Lin many more to go.
Not necessarily Lord Lin these gods are feared they can be tricksters some can be evil too but usually they don't care in fact in some stories yetis fill this role.
@@davidjacobs8558 Sinbad the Sailor is a Persian tale. The oldest known surviving variant of Aladdin was created by a Syrian Maronite in Syria during its Ottoman Empire period, even though it was about Aladdin who was Chinese.
I don't believe his account one bit, don't get me wrong. But I couldn't help but find that dog island eerily similiar to some european societies where people used to wear dog skin (wolf pelts) to protect themselves from the cold and spoke strange languages that sound strikingly similar to dog noises (germanic language family).
aah this video reminds me of how absolutely terrified my grandma was of letting me go to the river alone as a kid. She kept telling me stories of the kappa and told me he would take me away if I ever went there alone or at sunset.
We also have something similar in our folktales, and sometimes it happens to this day. They used to find them in places that would be impossible for humans to go by themselves like in crevices under cliffs and forests far away from the place they were missing. They reported eating what they saw as meat and vegetables which were actually worms and dfallen leaves. It usually is bad
Looking at my current life (finished my PhD, but unemployed and broke), the state of economy and politics, I sometimes wish to get issekai-ed... However, spirited away has some foul aftertaste. In Higurashi, they also said demoned-away...
Kamikakushi (神隠し ) literally means 'Hidden by kami'. Kakusu means 'to hide or conceal'. I guess abducted doesn't make any difference. Even though I know some stories that Linfany narrates it's fun see his videos and how he narrates the story
This happens in the Hmong culture too. Sometimes ghosts or spirits will appear in dreams, trying to take them away to the spirit world (meaning person would die in their sleep). It is especially a bad omen if you dream about dragons. There’s other things like if you fall in a river/lake your “spirit” falls into the water too so it needs to be called back by releasing a duck into the water and having it swim back. There’s also warnings that ghosts can attach themselves to you and follow you home. People would get sick and need a ritual done by a shaman to get better. These beliefs still continue today.
I think its interesting that what he said about the temperature fluctuating depending on how high you are is true to some degree. Im not an expert but i remember learning about it in science class
Being spirited away is a phenomenon known in many animistic societies across the globe. It's perceived through the cultural lends of the time and place. For instance many have connected fairy abduction experiences to alien abductions etc. Sorry for going off topic I just find it interesting how such things happen cross culturally. I love your videos
I'm gonna go with hallucinations (is there anything like magic mushrooms in Japan?) because this all sounds like an ancient acid trip, or possibly a series of vivid and connecting dreams.
This was a really cool story. Someone should turn this into an anime. You'd have to add a villain and explain the story a little more. This is a really cool building point for a wild tale to be spun from though. You have a hero to go on a journey. You have a mentor.
Kappa (4:14) have a seriously dark history. In the Tohoku region centuries ago, famine regularly wiped out swaths of the population. Things would get so desperate that new mothers would sacrifice their infants so there would be less mouths to feed. A common practice was to take them to a stream at night and perform a ritual that would turn the child's spirit into a kappa. It ended with her crushing the infant's skull saying the words 'A kappa needs a place for it's water.' Kappa are depicted with a water filled indentation on the top of their heads. To this day there are rituals at some shrines called water child ceremonies for the spirits of lost or miscarried infants.
This story I really enjoyed. Except the dog part.I love listening to this channel. I guess this is what my teacher was referring to when he'd say "Learning can be fun".
it's chilling that tales like this not only have been told for thousands of years, but similar things are still happening today. a dude named Paulides has done a lot of research on it, and the more you hear about it, the weirder it gets! (he called it missing 411)
Was commenting various times on this (didn't mention Paulides, as didn't think people would have heard of him and get the reference). What is your take on the Missing 411? I'm always interested to hear people's theories. (P.s. I've been following it for years, so no need to explain the basics)
So i was watching this game show and the person had to pick a topic for the whole game show and got Japanese origins and myths....from watching you I got all the answers right and ended up getting all the answers right...freaked out my family in Newfoundland
I fear that man harmed that kid repeatedly for those 5 years and he either dissociated all of it out of trauma or the man drugged him for every "session"... Poor kid.
I love that you picked up this quite unknown story! Lately here in Japan the modern Japanese translation of the story became a huge topic on Twitter which actually no one knows why. Bookstores sell it with a nice Tengu cover under the title of 仙境異聞 'Miraculous stories from the Land of Hermits' I am reading the book lately and tried to find some content about it on youtube but there was almost nothing until I coincidentally found your clip! I am watching your other clips and I am a huge fan, studying Japanese religions and adding some special knowledge thanks to you! btw Torakichi looks so cute with that adorable hairstyle😋
Oh...I think I've heard of that one when I was kid and scared me 😦 Not that she had "no neck" but her head was not attached to head only put together with scarf so take say the scar and head fell, no?
I've been watching your work for a couple of months now and you're doing great work! You're hysterical 😂 and I love hearing about the ji samurai and the yamabushi that lived in the mountains of iga and koga. It's magical in my mind. Anyways, Keep at it 👍
@@Linfamy Yeah, that's what thought too, but that yamabushi in Iga that shared his nature magic with the ji samurai and there followers... I think he was druid.
Dog people have dogs Me: That's so cute:) Dog people are actually real people who killed and skinned their dogs Me: WHAT THE FLIP, BURN YOU TENGU SPAWN
Children being half spirit before 7 might explain those children who can see things and have past memories and then lose them all when they turn teenager
*Tengu:* "Mah boy... You faced many of my tests, and proved that you are worthy of my teachings..." 👺 *Da boy:* "Yes master. It was hard. But I did as thou wished" 😄 *Tengu:* "Now my youngling. Only one last test remains before you can finaly learn the last secret of all..." 👺 *Da boy:* "Yes master. Tell me about it" 🙂 *Tengu:* "You see me long, thick, veiny nose mah boy??" 👺 *Da boy:* "Uuuh... Yes...?" 😕 *Tengu:* "Stroke it me boy..." 👺 *Da boy:* "... what?" 😟 *Tengu:* "STROKE IT MAH BOY!" STROKE IT LIKE YOU NEVER STROKE SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE!!" 👺 *Da boy:* "B-but I don't wanna...😰" *Tengu:* *DO IT YOU MOTHERFUCKER, OR I'LL GET YOU BACK IN THE ISLAND OF DOGS AND SELL YOU AS FOOD LIKE THE DOG YOU ARE!!!* 👺 *Da boy:* 😭 ✨ *CHILD KIDNAPPING* ✨ It's fine if a god does it. 💁🤷🐉
Hirata Atsutane is the author of Senkyo Ibn He brings a new flow to the national studies, and is called one of the big four of the national studies with nida, Kamo, and Motoorii He is said to have been well versed in Western medicine, Latin, calendar, easy studies, and military studies, and researched and analyzed various religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Dutch Studies, and Christianity. His story is strange and interesting.There's a lot of talk about youkai In his story, the name of the General of the Japanese Youkai is Sanmoto gorozaemon Sanmoto gorozaemon is said to have fought Shinno Akigoro and became a youkai general
These are similar to Celtic stories about Sidhe (pronounced "Shee") beings who steal children and young women and replace them with changelings. Although these stories have been softened a bit in Victorian fairy stories like Peter Pan, in the old stories the child isn't always returned, and the parents (or in the most recent case of Sidhe abduction in the late 1800s, the husband) often abuse or kill changelings, who were often just sickly or differently abled.I am pretty sure that I might have been thought a changeling had I been born before my family immigrated to Canada because I am on the autism spectrum.
That's neat about the age of seven thing. In ancient Rome, a child was considered an infant until the age of seven because that was the general age of when a child's baby teeth would come out, or at least start to. I think maybe the Japanese had the same sort of logic in that childhood transition.
