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	Jikininki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Japanese Buddhism, jikininki (Japanese: 食尸鬼, "man-eating ghosts") are the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat human corpses.
		Often, jikininki are said to look like decomposing cadavers, perhaps with a few inhuman features such as sharp claws or glowing eyes.
		Jikininki is also the title of a feature film directed by Ted Geoghegan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jikininki (263 words)

	Jikininki: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Japanese Buddhism (Japanese Buddhism: more facts about this subject), Jikininki ("man-eating ghost (ghost: The visible disembodied soul of a dead person) s") are the spirits of greedy (greedy: greed is a desire to obtain more money or material possessions or bodily satisfaction...
		Jikininki are preta (preta: a hungry ghost is a kind of ghost associated with hunger common to many religions....
		In the latter case, they may be freed from their deplorable existence through remembrances and offerings (segaki (segaki: the segaki ("feeding the hungry ghosts") is a ritual of japanese buddhism, traditionally...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/jikininki (369 words)

	Hungry ghost - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gaki (餓鬼;) are the spirits of jealous or greedy people who, as punishment for their mortal vices, have been cursed with an insatiable hunger for a particular substance or object.
		Jikininki (食尸鬼 "man-eating ghosts") are the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat human corpses.
		In Hindu tradition, much as described in the Book of Enoch, hungry ghosts are spirit-beings driven by the passionate objects of their desire.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Hungry_ghost (613 words)

	Jikininki
		In Japanese myth, jikininki are demons, corpse-eaters, who eat dead human bodies.
		Suddenly a jikininki arrived to devour it, but the priest's prayers liberated the demon's soul.
		Article "Jikininki" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 17 March 1997 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/j/jikininki.html (88 words)

	Jikininki, Asian Ghoul
		Claws used for digging, also make for fine weapons, as well as a mouth full of jagged canines able to crunch through bones for their succulent marrow.
		Jikininki are an ever present problem in Borneo and Java, where the body counts are growing ever present.
		the Jikininki are the vessels of numerous infectious bacteria and diseases.
	riftsindonesia.tripod.com /asianghoul.htm (696 words)

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		“Jikininki are a type of gaki,” he said patiently, although he was starting to wish that he could curse as freely as Kaori did.
		Jikininki are man-eating ghosts; they always feed on dead human flesh.
		They become jikininki for similar reasons as gaki, but were a bit worse during life.
	fier.livejournal.com /11102.html?mode=reply (1088 words)

	Jikininki: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		jikininki lament their condition and hate their repugnant cravings for dead human flesh.
		Jikininki are said to look like decomposing cadavers, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Jikininki are preta (A hungry ghost is a kind of ghost associated with hunger common to many religions....)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/jikininki (819 words)

	Super Heroine Showdown 2004: Forbidden Tokyo (part 2 of 4) (Shoujo-Ai Archive Fanfiction) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The drones of the Jikininki are more than willing to attack the true heir to Forbidden Tokyo.
		With her honed martial arts skills, Rinako turned her whole body around with the force of the jump and projected her leg forward at the lesser ogre.
		But all her subjects, those of the Jikininki, came to know her only by her family name.
	www.shoujoai.com /fanfics/original/showdown/2.asp (2113 words)

	Jikininki
		Infectious: Due to their undead state and the way in which they survive (feasting on the rotting flesh of the dead), the Jikininki are the vessels of numerous infectious bacteria and diseases.
		Any successful strike by bite or claw that breaks the skin, has a chance of also infecting the prey with some sort of infection or disease.
		These undead marauders are known for hit and run attacks, and then waiting until the prey has succumbed to the illnesses.
	onmyoshi.freeservers.com /jikininki.html (634 words)

	Kashka Kalderash
		The gaki are cursed to wander the world as pathetic spirits, endlessly yearning for food and drink, though they have no mouths, because they spent their lives being jealous and greedy.
		The gaki are often mistaken for vampires, mainly by those who do not understand what it is to be a vampire, as are the jikininki, but the gaki are nothing like vampires - except that some will eat blood - and the jikininki are really more like disgusting zombies in their feasting habits.
		They are cursed to seek out and eat human corpses every night and are forever repulsed by their own repugnant cravings.
	kashkakalderash.greatestjournal.com (2078 words)

	Kwaidan: Jikininki (1904) by Lafcadio Hearn
		The Japanese narrator gives also the Sanscrit term, "Râkshasa;" but this word is quite as vague as jikininki, since there are many kinds of Râkshasas.
		But I repeated the service and performed the rites only as a matter of business;--I thought only of the food and the clothes that my sacred profession enabled me to gain.
		And because of this selfish impiety I was reborn, immediately after my death, into the state of a jikininki.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca /programs/arts/english/gaslight/kwaidanH.htm (1699 words)

	RPG Now: Lean & Hungry
		New potions like essence of the divine winds that harvests ki energies to transform its user into an undying divinity; and the distillation of quickened stone that hardens the rock it is applied to and causes it to grow lighter.
		Two new NPC classes: the criminal who makes up the bulk of both urban criminal outfits and rural outlaw bands; and the faithful who serve their gods in inglorious ways, much as adepts fulfill wizardly roles among primitive peoples.
		New creatures such as the flesh-eating jikininki, the four monstrous guardians of the ancient burial mound, a lesser shield guardian construct charged with protecting its wizard master, and an entire army of terracotta soldiers!
	www.rpgnow.com /product_info.php?products_id=4908&SRC=AtlasGames (294 words)

	Inside Akasha: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the same cave as us was a Troll Priest, Jikininki, soloing the same mobs we were after.
		Ire and I are Night Elves, he was a Troll, there is no way to communicate except the standard emotes, yet somehow, we managed to work together better than most all Alliance groups I have been in.
		With Jikininki medding between two corpses, I saw both were fully looted by the skinning icon my mouse changed to, I took a gamble in thinking that he didn't skin and started the de-furring procedure.
	www.akasha.wowmb.net /news.php?55 (1197 words)

	The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn - Dorothy Hoobler - Penguin Group (New Zealand) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And when I died, as punishment I was sent back to earth as a jikininki.' He hung his head.
		He had the odd feeling that something might be hiding in the darkness beyond the terrace.
		But it sounded like a gang of jikininkis waiting to gobble him up as soon as he fell asleep.
	www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_039923330X,00.html (2723 words)

	Super Heroine Showdown 2004: Forbidden Tokyo (part 3 of 4) (Shoujo-Ai Archive Fanfiction) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Upon that mighty polish steel throne, before the Great Hall from which she would decide the fates of all.
		The powerful leader of the Jikininki smiled to herself, her thin pink lips curling upwards.
		Not only did she have to stomach shopping with the Princess; she also had to be punched by some ogre for the Jikininki.
	www.shoujoai.com /fanfics/original/showdown/3.asp (2546 words)

	Kwaidan - Story VII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I am ashamed only that you should have seen me in my real shape,-- for it was I who devoured the corpse and the offerings last night before your eyes...
		And Muso Kokushi found himself kneeling alone in the high grass, beside an ancient and moss-grown tomb of the form called go-rin-ishi, [3] which seemed to be the tomb of a priest.
		Apparently the word jikininki signifies here one of the Baramon-Rasetsu-Gaki,-- forming the twenty-sixth class of pretas enumerated in the old Buddhist books.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/socl/customsetiquettefolklore/kwaidan/chap9.html (1727 words)

	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the first segment, entitled "Jikininki" opens, a tiny, distant figure makes his way through a cluster of mountains.
		The first segment, "Jikininki," tells the story of a lone priest battling the unseen horrors of the night.
		When some kindly strangers give Muso lodging for the night, he learns that the master of the house recently passed away.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/printable.asp?id=2165&date=11/29/2000 (956 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The jikininki appears slight, but her body weighs on him, heavy and cold as iron.
		He might deny it later, to Tsuzuki and the rest, but he was only been able to keep the jikininki's vicious, unreasonable emotions at bay for mere moments before succumbing to a powerful sense of their affinity, their horrible sameness.
		Sinking weakly back down to his elbows, nose wrinkling at the sour reek of gall, it occurs to him that Seiko's cold selfishness and destructive envy are reminiscent of the monster Muraki, as well.
	www.salacious-texts.com /Glovebox/YnM/otsuyaBody.htm (11680 words)

	Ping Chong & Company
		In addition, there are puppets of all sizes, ranging from much smaller than human to human-sized, and then much larger.
		For example, "The Story of Jikininki" opens with a landscape painting background, an image much like traditional Japanese brush paintings in fl ink on a parchment-like paper.
		A tiny figure of a monk treads along with walking stick, disappearing down a side of a hill to become revealed again as a human-sized puppet approaching a hermit’s hut on the mountain.
	www.danceinsider.com /f1031_1.html (508 words)

	Fangoria - America's Horror Magazine
		Ted Geoghegan, who scripted NIKOS THE IMPALER and DEMONIUM for Andreas Schnaas, dropped Fango a line to report that he’s embarking on his directorial debut this summer.
		They will be creating not only a large amount of gore for the picture, but also a wide variety of demons, monsters and forest-dwelling ghouls.”;
		JIKININKI, which Geoghegan will also produce with Elmar Berger and Paul Bigotti, rolls this summer in the New York/New Jersey area.
	www.fangoria.com /news_article.php?id=1063 (243 words)

	Looking for ppl to assist on movie in New Jersey... [Archive] - The CHUD.COM Message Boards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If you can give us two days of your time, we'll make sure that you're well-fed and that you'll have a screen credit in the finished film.
		The film is a Japanese-set horror film entitled "Jikininki".
		Will be a great opportunity to meet industry folks and press (Fango, Rue Morgue, etc...), as well as see how shots are set up, FX are created, etc...
	www.chud.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-51569.html (459 words)

	Amazon.ca: Arianna Baker: Portal to Yasanadi: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shortly after a friendship develops between Arianna and her neighbor, Willow, they begin their journey into the unknown.
		On their perilous journey they encounter the jikininki demons who guard a marinka, a magical flower used for powerful potions.
		The journey continues on through another portal, which leads the girls to a wondrous magical world where they meet Captain Caduceus Durbend, who helps Arianna seek the answers she is looking for.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1413763693 (255 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But no! -- I really cannot tell you with what it was filled.
		JIKININKI Once, when Muso Kokushi, a priest of the Zen sect, was journeying alone through the province of Mino (1), he lost his way in a mountain-district where there was nobody to direct him.
		For a long time he wandered about helplessly; and he was beginning to despair of finding shelter for the night, when he perceived, on the top of a hill lighted by the last rays of the sun, one of those little hermitages, called anjitsu, which are built for solitary priests.
	www.worditude.com /ebooks/txtbooks/hearn.txt (23509 words)

	Third Edition Dungeons & Dragons Archive: d20 System: Lean & Hungry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lean and Hungry is a D20 System Japanese-flavored fantasy scenario for a party of 4th to 6th level.
		New potions like essence of the divine winds that harvests ki energies to transform its user into an undying divinity; and the distillation of quickened stone that hardens the rock it's applied to and causes it to grow lighter
		New creatures such as the flesh-eating jikininki, the four monstrous guardians of the ancient burial mound, a lesser shield guardian construct charged with protecting its wizard master, and an army of miniature terracotta soldiers!
	www.flash.net /~brenfrow/d20/leanhun.htm (245 words)

	Forumer.com (Free Forum Hosting) - View Profile: Jikininki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Whether it is support, games, or just to chat, these forums are the place for you!
		You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
		Jikininki is not a member of any public groups
	www.forumer.com /forum/member.php?u=10149 (150 words)

	[No title]
		Jetrel One of the 200 fallen angels in the Enochian listings.
		Jikininki In Japanese myth, jikininki are demons, corpse-eaters, who eat dead human bodies.
		Jin In Malaysia and western Indonesia, Jins are a race of demons.
	www.angelfire.com /journal/cathbodua/Demons/Jdemons.html (277 words)

	Warehouse 23: Penumbra: Lean & Hungry
		Lean and Hungry is a Japanese-analog fantasy scenario for a party of 4th to 6th level.
		New creatures such as the flesh-eating jikininki, the four monstrous guardians of the ancient burial mound, a lesser shield guardian construct charged with protecting its wizard master, and an entire army of terra cotta soldiers!
		Requires the use of the Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook.
	www.warehouse23.com /item.html?id=AG3216 (260 words)

	Real Hardcore Radio - [OTAKU 004] Chaosbringer - Dividing the Red Sea EP
		Jikininki are demons, corpse-eaters, who eat dead human bodies.
		By the way, TOA remix kicks ass too.
		Give a link you lazy bitch shakes fist
	www.hardcoreradio.nl /forum/showthread.php?p=275709#post275709 (682 words)

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