stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn

Stories and studies of strange things by lafcadio hearn was a really interesting collection of what the title says strange stories of mostly ghost and monsters in japan. I found these stories to be really interesting because they aren’t like western ghost stories but of ghost who doesn’t live in another world but in are world and that are still living. These stories kind of blur the line because spirits are and myths are all intertwined in Japanese culture looking at one of the first stories where the man is about to get his head cut of by the samurai and tells all the men around his cussed soul will haunt them all horribly when he passes but the samurai tells him to try and bite the stone to show that the sprit will come back and the man did all the people around where horrified that the sprit would come to get them but it never came but just the shear though of it maybe coming to life horrified them to the point where they thought it was true it shows how engrained it is into there mind.