Something Told

A shapeless thing comes in the night and eats a corpse and its offerings, while Musō, keeping watch beside them, can neither move nor speak.

A peasant says a man named Picou saw a wolf the size of a calf over his hedge after sunset, and refuses to cross the marsh that night.

In a dream, a weeping woman stands at Sonjō's pillow and asks why he killed her husband. They were happy together at Akanuma, she tells him.

Men changed into wolves gather on Christmas night, attack people and animals, and lay siege to houses standing alone in the woods.

Three days after a father's death, a manglalabas starts coming to his family's house at night. It throws stones, breaks the water-jars and pinches the widow, and the family decide to leave.

Two men caught by a snowstorm shelter in a mountain hut. A woman in white breathes on old Mosaku until he freezes, then tells Minokichi she had meant to do the same to him.