Eerie cry as illness omen
A motif · Omens · Thompson B172.1, Animals
One figure in this bestiary carries it.
Nearby in Thompson's index
Motifs this bestiary also holds from B172 and below. The codes are the index's; the names and counts are ours.
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B172Song mesmerizes swimmers to their doom 3 figures
Carried by
Nue
In Japanese folklore, the nue is a chimeric yokai with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki (or raccoon dog), the limbs of a tiger, and a snake for a tail, whose eerie cry is said to portend misfortune or illness.