Yokai Explained: Ubume, Women Who Died in Childbirth

All about the ubume, a yokai that forms from women who died in childbirth or in late-stage pregnancy.

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0:00 Ubume 101
1:33 Bloody way to prevent ubume
2:49 Grave stories
4:20 Death ritual
5:38 Evil babies

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SOURCES
🔸 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27009002
🔸 https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n...
🔸 Prostak, Michaela Leah. Monstrous Maternity: Folkloric Expressions of the Feminine in Images of the Ubume
🔸 https://hyakumonogatari.com/2010/12/2...
🔸 yokai.com/ubume

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