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Might Be An Ainu Ghost?

 

This is rather a very short not too scary and kind of funny event that I have experienced.

I was spring hiking with my friend, his family were said to be related to Ainu and they knew the culture quite well.

We went to the Shikotsu Lake it was still kind of breezy but there were already lots of tourists around... (Oh do I hate people? It was tiring seeing that many people around.)

The Shikotsu Lake is full of stories and legends and it is related to the Ainu, one very rare legend around is that we will meet some kind of ghosts (Japanese people call those Yokai) which will appear as a half beast half man being, called Mintuchi.

My friend was introducing some stories related to Ainu while we were walking up the hill side of the lake. I was listening to him to kill time walking up the cold hill with nothing but melting snow.

Suddenly I thought I saw a fox? Or somewhat like a hairless dog? It was grey-ish or black. My friend tapped me on my shoulder and said that he saw a child ran past us and went in the bush. I looked around but I did not see any one, then I told my friend that I saw a fox or a dog like something ran across us.

"Mintuchi?" said my friend.

I looked at him with a "what did you say?" look.

"See, are you sure that it was a fox or a dog or some kind of animal?" he asked.

"Why? If there were any kids around surely we'd see some parents running after them," I said. "There's no fox or wild dogs around here or in this cold weather? No way" I continued.

Pentachikoll... Nittalasampe kaisei... Okkell ipe

We both heard this phrase from a distance.

"OK, it's the tourist" I said.

"No no! It's in Ainu language... It said; lighting the torch... The rotten duckweed-ball with feather's dead body... Something which farts?" said my friend trying to hold his laugh.

"What the...what?" I replied him puzzled.

"Ainu have a tradition to name their children with strange and dirty meaning words, like the traditional Halloween, they think that dirty stuff and ugly things scare away bad spirits" he answered. "Maybe its introducing his name to you?" continued my friend.

That was really it and nothing strange or horrible had happened after.

We walked along and talked about some more Ainu Ghosts that people still will talk about today.

Why I thought this should not be someone alive? It is because it spoke Ainu, I mean... Like you will not hear a random endangered language somewhere from a tree or bush, that was what kind of happened.

No, though Ainu is known to be natives of Hokkaido, but they are not "bush people" who would hide in a bush and hunt there, they are much more "civilized" like any traditional oriental people but just dressed differently and have very very ancient cultural activities.

Do you think we really saw a ghostly being during our hiking?

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blosomes (26 stories) (165 posts)
 
2 days ago (2025-03-22)
Lady Glow,
Yup, I got you. 😉

So like... Spirits are spirits, like the Thai believes everything spiritual including gods are called Phi. Over there Thai believe that there's no good or bad, gods or not gods, the other-side evil or not, gods or angels or ghosts or spirits, they are all phi/s.

That is why they will except any religion and make them Thai style. They are now mostly considered Buddhist, but originally they worship phi (all the rituals and prayers, mantras came later).
lady-glow (16 stories) (3209 posts)
 
2 days ago (2025-03-22)
Blosmos.

Sometimes I wonder if paranormal entities and gods are the same all over the world but have been "shaped" in accordance with the particular religious beliefs of each country/region hence acquiring the characteristics of people's expectations.
Something like: first god/s created humankind and then humankind got creative creating god/s.

If this makes sense.
blosomes (26 stories) (165 posts)
 
5 days ago (2025-03-19)
Lady Glow

Yes, I do believe in elemental beings, I was just reading about some information about jinns and how they were misunderstood to become demon like entities. I think you had read about the new story which just poped up.
Surprisingly, Shintoism and Japanese Buddhism have some very interesting believes about how nature and "gods" or spirits are linked. 😉
lady-glow (16 stories) (3209 posts)
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5 days ago (2025-03-18)
Valcricry.

Your comment is both terrifying and hilarious at the same time. Sometimes the living people are more dangerous than the dead ones.
I'm sorry you had to experience such a scary event.

Roy.

I wonder if these Ainu ghosts are some sort of elemental beings.
blosomes (26 stories) (165 posts)
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5 days ago (2025-03-18)
Valcricry,
Oh my... 😨 You sure had a hard life, and very lucky to be alive in such situation...

But hey, that's exactly what I meant.
Rumors are always rumors the truth is always hidden under hundreds or different rumors. 😐

Sending lots of luck and cares ❤
valkricry (49 stories) (3296 posts) mod
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5 days ago (2025-03-18)
blosomes, there are fake/false tales EVERYWHERE. Like Rajine says, a simple truth gets embellished. That's why I listen to legends like this:🤔 (ha-ha)
Let's take this simple episode from my life. I was unfortunate enough to be working at a convenience store that got held up at gun point. They literally put a gun to my head, and cocked the trigger. A lot of stuff went down, but I won't bore you with all the details. Suffice to say, I'm still standing, and he never got to pull the trigger. Of course, public place the incident spread like wild fire.
For about a week afterwards, I was being informed of my 'demise' because the rumor was I had been shot in the head and killed. The only 'fun' thing about this is the look on their faces thinking they were seeing a ghost initially.
Such is the case with many hauntings, I think. Every now and then, when I go back to the town this happened in, I'll hear that store is haunted by the ghost of a young girl who was shot in an armed robbery. 🤔
blosomes (26 stories) (165 posts)
 
6 days ago (2025-03-18)
Rajine
Yup yup, indeed
So are the fake tales around here perhaps? We should ask more questions more often before judging perhaps? 🙄 I am not sure but I am trying to be more open minded, its hard sometimes...
Rajine (14 stories) (930 posts)
 
1 week ago (2025-03-14)
Hi blosomes

Yes as with all legends, it's usually based on some form of truth, but gets embellished over the years.
blosomes (26 stories) (165 posts)
 
2 weeks ago (2025-03-10)
Rajine
Philosophic 🤔
Well, legends and what was told by the far past have to have a base line to make up as a story... (what am I even saying)
Yeah, when you believe it they are there...right? 🤔
Rajine (14 stories) (930 posts)
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2 weeks ago (2025-03-09)
Anythings possible I believe, as the saying goes.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
blosomes (26 stories) (165 posts)
 
3 weeks ago (2025-03-06)
Hi Lady-Glow
Well, there were only two of us (if the thing that went into the bush was not a human... You know what I mean?) also, we don't have any ape or monkeys in the wild 🤔

My friend (if he is not mocking at me) said that he smelt some fishy animals (like an amphibian?) 🤔
lady-glow (16 stories) (3209 posts)
 
3 weeks ago (2025-03-06)
It could have been a mangy animal, or a spirit... But if people don't believe you, it was a demon! (kidding)

As much as you dislike people, it would had been interesting to ask if some one else saw something odd running in the bushes.

Thanks for sharing.

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