Hōsō-Babaa (
Appearance[]
In Mizuki's illustrations, she takes a horse-like form, with one eye, two horns, whiskers, and a belt of skulls.
Personality[]
Hōsō-Babaa is an ally of Kitarō, helping him scare the two men on the Ghost Train.
History[]
1985 Anime[]
Hōsō-Babaa appears among the yōkai scaring the human passangers of the Ghost Train.
Legend[]
Hōsō-Babaa illustration.
Hōsō-Babaa is a yōkai mentioned in the book Oshu Hanashi by Tadano Makatsu. She caused a plague of smallpox and then ate the corpses of people who died of smallpox.
In the early bunka era, there was a large outbreak of smallpox in the city of Oshu, at the same time, grave robbing and vandalizing graves was common, and thus this legend appeared.
Trivia[]
- In episode 12 of the Jigoku Arc, Jakotsu-Babaa transforms into a form whose design comes from Shigeru Mizuki's illustration of Jakotsu-Babaa.
Jakotsu-Babaa's transformation in the 1985 anime.