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WTF
https://nihowa.com/blogs/japan/tengu
>THE TENGU is the most widely feared of traditional superhuman monsters.
>It is known to abduct young women, kidnap little children and do other mischief but at the same time, much power in punishing the bad and helping the good is attributed to it.
https://weirdnwildcreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Tengu
>Human Veal: The tengu has a habit of kidnapping children, and even today people blame this monster any time a kid goes missing.
>Rumor has it that the tengu may even eat the young ones it abducts.
https://www.tofugu.com/japan/tengu/
>Tengu often abducted priests, but they would also kidnap children.
>Some were permanently damaged mentally by the experience. Others were delirious or unconscious for a few days before eventually recovering.
>Renowned folklorist Yanagita Kunio said the boys of the mountain village where he grew up, as late as the late nineteenth century, talked constantly of their fear of being stolen by tengu.
https://asianethnology.org/article/1819/download
>Yanagita Kunio recalled how the boys in the mountain village in which he spent his childhood never tired of discussing the terrifying possibility of being stolen by a tengu.
>Almost invariably the kidnapper is a tengu, appearing usually in the disguise of a yamabushi‘
https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2022/10/03/a-yokai-a-day-how-dochins-pride-was-wounded-by-a-tengu-at-kuragari-peak-in-kawachi/
>Tengu were evil souls who slipped out of the cycle of karmic reincarnation found in Buddhism and existed in their own little world.
>As such, they were the chief antagonists of Buddhist monks and nuns, and of good lay people attempting to walk the spiritual path.
>Tengu were said to do awful things. They would kidnap children and force feed then feces until they went insane, and then return them to their villages years later.
