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Today the Dapper Cadaver blog brings you the Japanese Baku, the monster that eats nightmares

Baku are described as something like a monster tapir, or more specifically, having a head something like an elephant, a body something like a large and fat horse, the mane of a lion, and the legs and paws of a tiger.

In your early waking moments, you may call for the Baku, or the Baku may find you while hunting nightmares. The Baku feeds on nightmares. Don’t open your eyes though because seeing it may cause new ones. It uses it’s trunk to hold the nightmares and suck them up like a vacuum cleaner. Once the nightmare is eaten, you won’t remember it happening.

And this is why so many people forget their dreams right before they wake up.

Monster sketch from this awesome site Monster alphabet blog

The above image actually may be a concept art depiction of the Cloverfield Monster, but it reminds me of the Miqqiayuuq, so thats what I’m calling it. In fact, just like the Cloverfield Monster, there are no clear images or depictions of the dreaded Miqqiayuuq, so the similarity may be more than superficial.

The Miqqiayuuq is a giant, dark, hairy and most terrifying of all – faceless sea monster from the icy depths of Canada’s Hudson Bay and surrounding iced over fresh water . Miqqi, as his friends call him, though he has no friends, lurks in the depths, usually only seen as a great heaving dark shape.

This demonous monster would slide beneath the ice whenever the local Inuit came to the waters edge to fish or collect water, and he would reach our with his arms like tree trunks and great clawed hands and flip over their buckets and…
Thats it. That’s all he’s ever been recorded doing. More of a nuisance really, spilling fish and water. Or maybe just an excuse used by drunk ice fisherman as to why they returned empty handed. With all that size and sheer terror-ness it seems like kind of a waste. Maybe Cloverfield happened because Miqqi realized he could do so much more than be The Monster Who Flips Buckets.
New York isn’t that far from the Hudson.

Happy Valentines Day from Dapper Cadaver’s Monster-a-Day blog! In honor of Valentines Day I dug deep into world folklore to find the sexiest monster to ever walk the earth. Sure voluptuous mermaids, seductive succubus, or studly centaurs are pretty hot, but for sheer sexiness, nothing is beats a big set of balls. And for big balls, nothing beats the Japanese Tanuki.

The Tanuki is a kind of Raccoon-Dog with a fat belly and a big hat. He’s usually seen carrying a bottle of sake because he’s drunk and rowdy, and an unpaid bill, which he will never pay. Tanuki also have gigantic balls, and since scrotum skin can change shape, Tanuki can wrap themselves in their own scrotums to turn into anything. Like most shapeshifters, Tanuki are rowdy, playful, lusty, and clever. Definitely a classic trickster, Tanuki run the gamut of being lucky like leprechauns to malicious like hobgoblins, but most falling in between – mischievous.

By now I’ve probably gotten you so steamed up your just dying to see those balls. Well, here are a few of my favorite Tanuki with giant balls images. Just google tanuki for thousands more. The Japanese love these guys and put them everywhere.

NSFW!
A giant Tanuki whose balls dwarf a tourist

Tanuki doing the classic “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” pose, except no one is covering their balls and they all have huge erections

Tanuki using their scrotums as drums and sleeping bags

Tanuki beating japanese business men silly with their giant balls

Wow. That was hot. That should put you love birds in the mood. Happy Valentines day!

As part of Dapper Cadaver’s ongoing Monster-a-Day project I bring you an odd little nursery bogie from a land without nurseries – The Yara-Ma-Yha-Who of Australia.

These short little men resemble some sort of bad acid dream muppet. They’re 4 ft tall, with red skin, huge round heads, round glowing eyes, big toothless frog mouths, chubby bellies, and weird little arms and legs. They’re arms end in tentacles, which they use to hang from strangler fig trees and to suck the blood out of disobedient children.

These Yha-Who’s also like to swallow children whole with their giant mouths. Children must be very salty though, because often the Yha-Who grows so thirsty that it drinks until it throws up the child, still alive and intact, but somehow noticeably smaller than before

A great page on the Yha-Who can be found here