Oni
c. 700 CE – 2026 CEattested
Japan
- Japanese
Horned, hulking demons of Japanese folklore, originally invisible spirits of disease and disaster. By the Heian period they had settled into red or blue ogres that could be driven off by throwing beans.
Known for
- horns and iron clubs
- driven off by beans
- from invisible spirit to ogre
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.