What is Namahage?

Arriving in Japan more than 2,000 years ago, the namahage were notorious for stealing crops and kidnapping young women from Oga’s villages. After the villagers eventually fended them off by tricking them, they would come back every New Year, or so the children thought. In Japan’s Akita prefecture, men dress up as large, ogre-resembling demons […]

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