The Hōsōshi, Japan’s Four-Eyed Exorcist Demon

The Hōsōshi was a four-eyed exorcist demon from Japanese folklore, a court ritual figure whose extra eyes let him watch every direction at once and hunt pestilence out of the palace. This handmade clay effigy catches him after the turn, when the exorcist himself was sealed and remade as the kind of demon he once […]