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  • Bakemonogatari "is a wordplay on the Japanese term bakemono for supernatural creatures and the term monogatari for stories.)

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  • Smoke condensed around him, and the bakemono pressed their wraith bodies against him.

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  • Although he had never encountered bakemono before, he had heard enough stories to know what not to do.

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  • Although bakemono wraiths could touch, they were not physically dangerous until they took their human form, but they could lead people astray in the smoke and walk them off the edge of a cliff.

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  • He pulled his feet up and bucked, knocking the two bakemono on top of him against the undercarriage.

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  • Chances are they gave this land to the obake and the bakemono in exchange for helping them, Max explained.

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  • He heard the patter of feet, and the ghostly hands of the bakemono caught at him without any effect.

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  • Shrieks of triumph sounded from a chorus of bakemono throats.

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  • Usagi- a blak tux kitteh with sum odd kwirks- he makes demon faces so we alsew kall him bakemono

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  • Although said to be a bakemono-ki, the enoki sometimes receives highest religious honours; for the spirit of the god Kojin, to whom old dolls are dedicated, is supposed to dwell within certain very ancient enoki trees, and before these are placed shrines whereat people make prayers. º7

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