[The jakotsubaba is a fairly obscure yokai. Despite the snakes and the lurking in graveyards, the original story is primarily focused on protecting a single grave, so I decided to interpret it as a kami.]
Jakotsubaba An emaciated old woman stands here, clad in nothing more than rags.
Her eyes glint with yellow light. Two immense serpents, one red and one
blue, grow from her shoulders and wind around her arms.
Jakotsubabas are kami that guard the dead and protect them from both
living marauders and the depredations of the undead. Although they can
be found in large cemeteries, they are more frequently found warding a
lonesome tomb or a mass grave hidden in the wilderness. Due to their
emaciated forms, they are typically mistaken for undead creatures, but
jakotsubabas are nothing of the sort and indeed despise the undead above
all else.
The unnatural aura of a jakotsubaba is typically sufficient to guard
the bodies they protect from mundane predators, but either mortal or
undead marauders must be repelled with force. Most jakotsubabas will
begin by attempting to frighten away trespassers, but if this fails,
they attack with the snakes growing from their bodies and swarms of
phantasmal serpents conjured by their magic. Mortal intruders will
typically be left unconscious by the jakotsubaba’s venom and dragged to a
remote spot to recover or succumb to the elements.
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