“Jikininki” are from Japanese Buddhism and they
mean “human eating ghosts”, and that already means that this wont end
well. They are spirits of cursed individuals who were greedy in life, and are now forced to seek out and eat human corpses at night.
Jikininki are said to look like decomposing corpses, with sharp claws and glowing eyes. They also have the ability to magically disguise themselves as normal human beings and lead
normal lives by day.