Amazake-babaa

demonic earth Japanese single tradition · 3

A disease-causing hag.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
0 CE
Attested period
0 – 2020

Relationships

equivalent to
amazake-banbaa

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Sources

Source passages

“Amazake-babaa (Japanese) – Disease-causing hag.”

#4077 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Amazake-babaa An old woman spirit from Miyagi Prefecture and Aomori Prefecture who comes late at night and asks for sweet sake in a childish voice, bringing disease (usually smallpox or the common cold) to whoever answers”

#4953 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“In the Kohinata neighborhood of Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Amazake-babaa is not a supernatural being but a human being from the neighborhood, a local amazake-seller who died of a common cold and was posthumously deified as a protector of children against diseases. A statue of her was later erected by the abbot of Nichirin-ji Temple.”

#5659 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001