weakness-to-specific-animal-or-object

Basilisk · salience 0.8

“The crow of a rooster is said to be fatal to it, and the scent of a weasel is believed to repel or even kill the creature.”

Cockatrice · salience 0.8

“Weasels are also said to be immune to its gaze and capable of killing the beast.”

Hamou Ukaiou · salience 0.8

“Against this danger the sources record a single, concrete protective measure — he is said to fear knives, and specifically to be kept away by the sound or presence of a blade being sharpened nearby, echoing a common belief across the region that iron and edged metal repel jnun.”

Kakamora · salience 0.75

“A recurring protective motif across the tradition is an aversion to white — white shell, cloth, or other pale objects are described as able to repel or frighten kakamora away, giving islanders a practical means of warding against them. Local emphasis varies between the more strictly avoidant reading and the more dangerous, wildman-like one, and the general folklore compendia surveyed for this entry draw on comparatively thin ethnographic material — broad reference works rather than a sustained monograph tied to one community — so no named individual kakamora or extended tale-cycle is preserved here.”

Basajaun

“Elsewhere, a farmhand is said to drive off a Basajaun by chewing and eating four grains of wheat before him.”

Dokkaebi

“In some tellings, a Dokkaebi can be tricked into revealing its weakness or driven off by a show of superior cunning rather than force, and it is said to fear or dislike horse blood and certain colors such as red.”

Kappa

“The Kappa's power is bound entirely to the water in its head-dish: if the dish spills or dries out, the Kappa becomes weak, immobile, or even dies, and travelers exploit this by tricking a Kappa into bowing, since its rigid politeness compels it to return any bow it receives and so spill its own water.”

Selkie

“A Selkie's central power is this transformation between seal and human shape, but the act depends entirely on the sealskin itself: without it, a Selkie cannot return to the sea and remains trapped in human form.”

Kurrea

“His escape depended on a piece of specific local knowledge: the Kurrea feared nothing in the world so much as the bumble tree, which the tellings identify as its mother-in-law.”