There are creatures that hide in shadows and creatures that hide in plain sight, wearing masks so convincing that by the time you realize the trick, it’s already too late. In Japanese folklore, no spirit is more captivating, mischievous, and deadly than the Kitsune — the shapeshifting fox spirit. Born of cunning and magic, the …
There are creatures you run from, and then there are creatures you laugh with — or at — though the laughter is never entirely free of fear. Deep in the forests and mountains of the Philippines lives one of the strangest, most mischievous figures in global folklore: the Tikbalang. Half-horse, half-man, all trickster, the Tikbalang …
