Talk:Namahage

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I added information under the "Interpretations" section regarding teaching children lessons. I also added a citation for the new year good fortune blurb. Prune away if needed. Mm9118 (talk) 07:20, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

While a lot of the writing in this article appears poorly written and confusing, there does seems to be a bit of useful information here. Will anyone object if I start pruning? Duende-Poetry (talk) 20:43, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Isn't this so cruel? CHILD ABUSE IN AISLE 4! --Homfrog^{Tell me a story!} 20:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

The Namahage article is full of errors. Much seems to have been translated directly from Japanese, and incorrectly at that. No - the errant Namahage did not rape any women in the bath, and they were banned from the bath area for three years after that. Also, Namahage do not actually cause harm to children - they just scare them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.215.8.24 (talk) 01:11, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Etymology

According to the article "Namahage in Japanese means blister." Not according to my dictionary it doesn't. Not even close. The kanji used for Namahage are 生剥げ . The first on it's own means 'life, genuine, birth' and (I think) 'fresh'. The second means 'come off, peel, fade, discolour'.

Blister can be sokomame, mame, houshin, mizubukure or odeki.

Will delete this section if no-one objects. Weavehole (talk) 11:39, 18 November 2010 (UTC)weavehole

Well, my dictionary may just not be that good. According to http://fudosama.blogspot.com/2005/02/oni-japanese-demons.html "The word "namahage" comes from a local word for the blister a person gets from spending too many hours sitting at the kotatsu, plus the word for "peel." " So there you go. Weavehole (talk) 04:34, 20 November 2010 (UTC)weavehole

Vikings?

This article is really bad. "Given from when the festival first started, it could be that they are the ghosts of explorers or the Vikings. It gives light to the idea that they cause trouble by foraging raids and the bet with the supply of women." I don't think there were ever any viking raids on Japan. 112.136.28.163 (talk) 16:04, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

I know this is over a decade old, but I think 'viking' may've been a bad translation or something like that. There's a few sources that do so Namahage were probably based off Eastern European (one specifically cites Russian) sailors who ended up in Japan. Will research further.--Amelia-the-comic-geek (talk) 23:09, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

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