#japan #ghosts #eggs
In the first story, we learn about a greedy ghost that has some awful eating habbits.
In the second story, we learn about why you don't talk to strange women, crying by the moat.
Source: Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things By Lafcadio Hearn
Narrator: Dustin Steichmann
Music: Krao - Dark Sakura (Japanese Horror Background Music)
Sound Effects: Fire Burst.wav by SilverIllusionist -- https://freesound.org/s/472688/ -- License: Attribution 4.0, engukoji_shrine.wav by volivieri -- https://freesound.org/s/76581/ -- License: Attribution 4.0, Desolation Wilderness by RTB45 -- https://freesound.org/s/366670/ -- License: Attribution 4.0, windy pine forest (soft) by jgrzinich -- https://freesound.org/s/436858/ -- License: Attribution 4.0, lukas_tvrdon_zisa_cry_scream, and Zapsplat.com
Picture credit: Maudgalyayana encounters his hungry ghost mother, from the 12th century Gaki Zoshi (Scroll of the Hungry Ghosts), a National Treasure of Japan. Image: Wikimedia Commons
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