The sources identify the Bakotsu as the spirit or animus of a horse that died in a fire and record it as one of sixteen yōkai illustrated in the Tosa Obake Zōshi, an Edo-period obake/zōshi pictorial roll. Beyond this classificatory identification, the cited materials supply no narrative origin, lineage, or mythic tale about the Bakotsu; there are no recorded folkloric accounts, origin myths, or expansion of its backstory in the provided sources. Its 'origin' in the available record is therefore the Tosa Obake Zōshi entry itself, which names and illustrates the apparition rather than recounting a fuller tradition.
In the available sources the Bakotsu is described and pictured as a skeletal, flaming horse. The entry emphasizes exposed bone (reflected in the kanji 馬骨, "horse bone") combined with imagery of fire; no further anatomical details, coloration, scale, or additional physical attributes are recorded in the cited materials. The depiction is strictly iconographic: a horse reduced to its bones and shown with flames, consistent with Edo-period yokai illustration conventions.
The cited sources do not attribute specific powers, behaviors, or interactions to the Bakotsu beyond identifying it as the spirit of a horse that perished in a fire and depicting it visually as skeletal and flaming. There are no recorded accounts in the provided materials describing how it acts, whether it harms or aids humans, or whether it exhibits any supernatural functions; any such attributions would be speculative and are not in the sources.
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Bakebi
No information about an entity named 'Bakebi' is present in the supplied Tshiluba Bible-heading sources. The name does not occur in the provided excerpts, so all attributes of a folkloric entity cannot be documented from these materials.
Bakeichōnosei
No verifiable information about 'Bakeichōnosei' is present in the supplied source. The only available material is a biographical note on Shigeru Mizuki; there is no description, classification, or rituals associated with Bakeichōnosei in that source.
Bakeneko
The bakeneko (ばけ猫, "changed cat") is a Japanese yōkai classed as a kaibyō (supernatural cat). Folklore presents it as a household cat that, through age, long residence, or other local conditions, acquires uncanny abilities such as shapeshifting, speech, and vengeance against cruel humans.
Bakeneko yūjo
A stock Edo‑period popular‑culture character: a courtesan (yūjo) who secretly transforms into a bakeneko (a shapeshifting cat). Emerging from rumors around Shinagawa and theatrical/print entertainment, the bakeneko yūjo functions as an uncanny motif linking cats, brothels, and urban anxieties rather than as a codified religious being.
Bakezōri
A Bakezōri is an animated zōri (straw sandal) from Japanese folklore, classified among tsukumogami — formerly inanimate household implements that become sentient after long use or neglect. They are typically mischievous, running through houses at night and chanting, and are generally described as harmless nuisances rather than truly dangerous beings.
Bakla
Bakla is a Philippine social and gender category—commonly an assigned‑male‑at‑birth person who adopts a feminine gender expression and is often treated as a third gender. Historically some bakla served as indigenous ritual specialists (babaylan, katalonan), but the term itself denotes a social identity, not a supernatural being.
Baku
A composite supernatural creature in East Asian (Chinese → Japanese) folklore best known in Japan as a benevolent dream‑devourer invoked to remove bad dreams and protect children at bedside. Its depiction and roles developed over time from an older Chinese chimera (mo) into a household protective being with a cautionary moral about overuse.
Bakunawa
A dragon- or serpent-like mythic being from Philippine tradition associated with the moon and eclipses; its actions explain lunar eclipses and some natural phenomena and were integrated into ritual practice and calendrical knowledge.
Bal-Bal
A Philippine folkloric undead/monster that steals corpses from funerals and graves and feeds on them, noted for keen scent for dead bodies, sharp claws and teeth, foul breath, and reportedly leaving a banana‑tree trunk in the coffin as a substitute for the stolen corpse.
Bala Ganapati
Bala Ganapati (Sanskrit: bāla-gaṇapati) is a child-form aspect of the Hindu deity Ganesha (Ganapati), depicted and venerated as a youthful manifestation emphasizing childhood, growth, abundance and fertility. He is listed as the first of thirty-two canonical forms of Ganesha in the Sritattvanidhi and is represented in iconography and some regional shrines (notably South India, where the child form is sometimes called Pillaiyar).
Bala Tripurasundari
Bala Tripurasundari (Sanskrit: बालत्रिपुरसुन्दरी; also called Balambika) is the youthful or child aspect of the goddess Tripura Sundari in the Tantric Śrī Vidyā tradition. She functions as a tutelary goddess invoked in sādhanā, appears in the Lalita Mahatmya episode of the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa as a martial divine agent, and is the object of kavach, mantra, and Pancharathnam devotional material.
Balaam
Balaam (Hebrew Bīlʿām) is a non‑Israelite seer/diviner attested in the Hebrew Bible and in an extra‑biblical West Semitic inscription (Deir Alla). He is portrayed as a liminal prophetic figure who receives divine visions and utters oracular poems but is morally contested in later traditions for his alleged role in leading Israel to transgression.
Community Record
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