Yurei/ Yorei, Japanese scary legends.

These days I'm  preparing the cards for a role-playing game with the ancient Japan storyboard and  this led me to get closer to some stories and Japanese legends to help  me in the creation of the characters.

Today I want to talk about a type of Japanese ghosts Yorei or Yurei, do you remember Samara of the ring?

Samara is a Yorei. Literally  a wandering spirit, with a feminine aspect and delineated by specific  characteristics, come to us thanks to some paintings.

The yorei usually has a long white dress that refers to what in Japan is the color associated with death, that is white.

The  yorei does not have feet and usually the lower part of his body is  evanescent while the upper limbs may be missing or become stuck in the  position where the arms are bent and the hands hang loose and lifeless  from slender wrists.

Long black hair, in Japan  there are many scary beliefs related to long post mortem hair, like the  Harionago, a ghostly woman who attacks men seducing them and then  blocking them with her hair or the Onryo with a livid aspect and a  violet face with hair. collected on the head.

Also  very popular is Yorei Ubume, a spirit of a pregnant woman who died in  childbirth who is told to be persecuted by her son and future  generations as a revenge for his prematurely extinguished life.

The yorei is a tormented phantom, left on earth following a violent and traumatic death or a failed proper funeral function.

In  some cases the Yorei has not gone beyond for reasons of revenge,  obsession and desires, in short, a spirit that succumbs to their vices  even after death by failing to leave them behind and to continue.

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