Tag Archives: oni

The Hammer and the Hood

Posted on March 24, 2022 by Nathan

I started playing Dragon Quest Builders recently, and there’s a place you visit early on that’s full of Hammerhoods, and even called Hammerhood Heights. These are a type of monster originally introduced in DQ5, small impish creatures who, well, wear … Continue reading →

Posted in British, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, German, Humor, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Scottish, Video Games | Tagged bodkin bowyers, brownies, clobberina, demons, dragon quest builders, dragon quest tact, dragon quest v, dragon quest viii, dragon quest x, dragonlord, elves, emcee hammerhood, fairies, final fantasy mystic quest, goblins, goldhammer, hammerhoods, hammers, imps, knockers, kobolds, mint mints, night clubbers, ogans, ogres, oni, redcaps, trolls | Leave a comment

What’s Up, Dokkaebi?

Posted on March 16, 2019 by Nathan

Dokkaebi are generally identified as Korean goblins. Information I’ve found about them online generally makes clear that this doesn’t necessarily mean they’re evil, but then, neither are European goblins. There are many different sorts of goblins, just as there are … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales, Japanese, Korean, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Television | Tagged bihyeong, dokkaebi, dokkaebi bangmangi, dokkaebi gamtu, dragon pearl, ghosts, goblins, invisibility, king jinji of silla, memorabilia of the three kingdoms, oni, samguk yusa, ssireum, wrestling, yoon ha lee | 1 Comment

Son of a Peach!

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Nathan

I was watching a video about the possible mythological origins of Princess Peach in the Mario series, and it mentioned the story of Momotaro. I don’t think I’d ever heard of it before, although it had elements that appeared in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Fairy Tales, Japanese, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Video Games | Tagged demons, inuyama, kibidango, megijima, momotaro, momotaro festival, ogres, okayama, oni, onigashima, ozma, peaches, princess peach toadstool, propaganda, the great mission to rescue princess peach, world war ii | 1 Comment

If I Had a Hammer

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Nathan

We all know about Thor‘s magic hammer, but it’s not the only one to appear in mythology. It was actually while reading through a page on the translation of Final Fantasy IV that I came across a mention of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Japanese, Magic, Magic Items, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video Games | Tagged daikoku-ten, elves, final fantasy iv, hammers, handy mandy in oz, himself the elf, issun-boshi, lucky mallet, luigi mario, mario and luigi: superstar saga, midge mallet, ogres, okami, oni, secret of mana, seven lucky gods, silver hammer, tom thumb, uchide-no-kozuchi | 8 Comments

Zim City

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Nathan

Today’s Oz character is a star in Melody Grandy’s Seven Blue Mountains of Oz trilogy. There are spoilers for these books in the post, and I would definitely recommend reading them if you haven’t yet. They really are good books, … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged bleegum, bucketheads in oz, celestia, charles phipps, chris dulabone, dan maryk, david hardenbrook, fern greenleaf, forever in oz, ganalan, green knight, jack, little rooster, maggie, melody grandy, munchkins, noland, oni, ozma, rimmers, rooster, sherlock holmes, spock, that ozzy feeling, the cowardly lion of oz, the disenchanted princess of oz, the engagement of ozma, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tippetarius, vega, wam, winkle, zim greenleaf | 19 Comments

Tag Archives: oni

The Hammer and the Hood

What’s Up, Dokkaebi?

Son of a Peach!

If I Had a Hammer

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