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The background noise is really bothering to the ears.

Why only 20 mins 😢

Been listening on Spotify. Absolutely my favorite content, thank you for continuing to make these!

One of the first things I saw this morning. That was great 😄 Hope the Uncanny crew is doing well and you have a good day!

Fantastic! Loved it!!!

Boy with no bones? What episode is that?

Yay 🎉 I missed these amazing stories😢 Thank you! I love these!

Cute!

カラスって警戒心と好奇心がちょうどいいバランスであるのですね。この大きさまで成長すると、そろそろ自分でエサをとる練習も始まるのかしらん。(それにしても、自分は洗濯物(の影)に気がとられてたまりませんでした。うらやましい。こっちじゃ外に干せないので...ああ、思い切り布団とかタオルとか干したい!!!)

Magical! Love this.

You Cooked!

Another good podcast. Spooky. Bet Kurt's video was creepy.

Good podcast. Interesting and entertaining. You have a lovely voice made for this genre.

This was utterly delightful, both versions ❤ So grateful I found this gem & excited to keep listening

love this video

✝️🌈🏳️‍🌈🏴

I came to say mayonnaise as a pizza topping is pure horror

I love and want visit Hokkaido so bad so this episode was great!

Lol so cute! I didn't know they hopped around like that!

Loving the crow content😊🖤

もう！びっくりした！

Hello! An interesting and important subject again. Hashi/箸/はし. I remember I was surprised to see there were no "my hashi" at our American friend's house, for we took granted that in ours. I tend to be very attached to the things I have/use, so, as you said, my current Hashi is more than 15 years old and the previous one is still kept in case. About the Hashi taboos, my husband and children has done "Tataki-bashi" on a whim many times before. (They are members of Japanese drum group.) That means we invited the evil spirits... oh, well. And your analysis of why we have such rules is correct, I think. A small country with many people. Offending others isn't good. Many warn about Japanese taboos including chopsticks rules, but the most of the Japanese "turn the blind eyes" to the small "rule breakings" of the tourists. (Or they just don't say anything out of politeness...) I'd like to say - just look around and see how people are/aren't doing, and learn!

Hi Thersa! Thank you again for your stories. As a pure Chinese, I am lacking in all the chopstick rules and I am holding it wrongly. I learned how to use one by myself when I was very young and the wrong holding method carried on. Sometimes, it's awkward but I don't want to make it such a big deal. But for the Chinese, it's very similar to the Japanese rules. There's one Hong Kong ghost story documentary film showed "how to call for spirits/hungry street ghost". It's so eerie!!! By knocking a pair of chopsticks onto a ceramic rice bowl! yikes!!! (tataki bashi?) . My brother in law sternly advised me when I poked my chopsticks on my noodles long time ago... "your food is not for the dead.... don't use your chopsticks that way". Oops.

Just got it yesterday and I love it and it maybe missing a lot of monsters and yōki and spirits but I still love it

Hello! Today I found your podcast on Pandora and absolutely love it❤. I can't wait to finish all the stories so I can listen again! The stories really help my days go by faster when I'm on the clock. Honto ni arigatougosaimasu 🙏

Great fun!

I love how relaxing your house/area seems, and sweet pea was really trying to pack it all in there. 😂 Hope you’re doing well Thersa!

They got so close! We used to gather the leftover rice from our rice cooker to feed birds, but only sparrows came.

This is so cute💚

Dear Theresa I really really enjoy your podcast but your intros are so long that I forget the core of the story

Very interesting video, Matsuura-san!!

Just bought your book.

Just started your content and i love it! My great grandfather comes from Hiroshima and moved to America. I come from a Mexican background so my connection to Japanese culture is very out of touch. But i always loved folklore and myths and the language so i started to dive more deeper recently. I don't know how to explain my appreciation for your content because its definitely the start of getting in touch with my Japanese side, im hoping to move to Japan one day and your content definitely fuels my dream and appreciation. Thank you so much😊

Interesantno je slušati ove priče. Pretpostavljam da dugo živite u Japanu jer jako lijepo izgovarate imena gradova i likova u pripovijetci. Radujem se novim audio uradcima, bravo za Vas. Lijep pozdrav iz Zagreba, Hrvatska, ❤🇭🇷🇯🇵

I'm also doing research for my writing, and this was helpful and relaxing! I thank you 💚

Hi Thersa! Thanks for another cool cool story. About unexplainable random smell, I think it's true and I was warned throughout my life since I was young, not to "comment" on a foul smell especially at night even if I think it was from the drain near me. It could be "something" that I cannot see, standing near me. yikes~ And some spiritually weaker people can get possessed if accidentally said something out loud commenting about the smell. Eek~! I've also experience weird weird midnight smoke smell or as though something is burning outside, not incense smell though (that has woken me up from my sleep). I've stupidly got up and check out the whole house and "followed" the smell but thank goodness, I didn't see anything ghostly. At that time, I just wanted to make sure nothing was burning (electrical goods) inside my house. If it is the incense smell, I won't bother checking it out because me and my family don't burn them and I'll be 100% sure, it's gonna be ghostly. During the 7th month of the Chinese calendar, which is the ghost month, one of neighbour (a Feng Shui aunty) would do weird rituals outside her house. My bother saw her once, doing something out of the ordinary (not the usual burning of dead people's money or necessities to do charitable offerings to the dead). He saw the lady drew triangular shapes on the cement ground, outside her house gate, burned something and then she clean them up with splashing water on it. hmmmm

I love the book! Great work and looking forward to the Uncanny Japan future!

Amazing ❤😊

The book is lovely, congratulations! I would have loved to see the story of Namazu too though, I think it's a short and interesting one. Looking forward to a second volume! Maybe one that explains Japanese traditions as well, the illustrations in this one are amazing.

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A treat in this morning! Thank you! The sound of a tree falling in the deep quiet mountain is something impressive/unique/sad. (By the way, the tool in the story reminds me of "Sumi-tsubo," a carpenter's tool.)

I just got the book today! Which led me to the podcast! Excited to venture into the various stories! :D

You probably have enough material to do another entire episode about pillows if you wanted to. I'd love to hear about the "pillow turner" yokai, or the belief about your soul/energy exiting through your pillow at night then coming back, or even about how on earth you're supposed to use those original style Japanese pillows (the ones that look like a rocking cradle's bottom section with a tiny taco-sized fabric topper)

Glad I encountered your podcast, which led me to your new book, just in time for my Japanese folklore addition to my collection... The price is so modest for its' elegant craftsmanship, hardbound, beautifully illustrated; I shall be back to rave about the Renderings of the stories, I'm quite sure! thank you thank you 🙏🏻😊 and 🎉

Interesting listening! The Ryomen Sukuna from JJK has his origin intentionally obscured for now. All we know is that he was active in the Heian era and got turned into a series of cursed items sometime after that. He doesn't seem to exactly match any of the tales you mentioned here. He does, however, wield a vajra-like weapon at some points, and the name of his area-annihilation technique Malevolent Shrine (伏魔御厨子) refers to AFAIK a very specific type of Buddhist altar. The Smallpox God that you've referred to before in another episode shows up in JJK, along with brief appearances from Tamamo-no-Mae and Kuchisake-Onna. The anime for JJK is one of the few anime that has clearly had a lot of money put into the animation (as compared to some other anime). If you're interested in the series, it might be worth watching episode 1 and see how you like it. (Crunchyroll has it available for free on UA-cam, though you might be under region restrictions in Japan)

Believe or Not They still doing it "Secretly" . . ☕🚬

.......dont get attached to anyone in jjk

Sukuna in Jujutsu Kaisen is a hunk. Hhhehehehhehehe. Thanks for the story 😍

all I can think of is jujutsu kaisen. but this video really is informational because whenever I search of sukuna on the internet I just get jujutsu kaisen information

I was just searching the internet for more information on Ryomen Sukuna, so when I saw you uploaded this, i was so excited! I learned so much, that i didn't know before, this was great!