Ghosts in Japan are pretty intense. They’re not the kind you get in America that go around dressed in sheets. In Japan, they wear white kimonos, and they have long black hair hanging in their faces, and also they have no feet. Usually they’re women who are righteously pissed off because someone has done something horrible to them. Sometimes, if a person has been treated really badly, she can even become an ikisudama,74 and her soul leaves her sleeping body and wanders around the city at night doing tatari75 and wreaking vengeance on all her shitty classmates who have tortured her by sitting on
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