3:26 Likely story, kid. We all know what really happened right? Please consider supporting the channel =) 🔸PATREON (blog, art): www.patreon.com/Linfamy 🔸MERCH: teespring.com/stores/linfamy (shirts, stickers, phone cases, and more!) 🔸DONATE: www.paypal.me/Linfamy

*yeeted away*

Plot twist. It was ALIENS who really kidnapped the children.

Yeah… sure… “Mom I didn’t stole the cakes, I was possessed by a Kami!”

Shrine maiden looking for stolen kids sounds like a cool plot of a story. She keeps the belief of mysticism up while just secretly being a good detective

"Torakichi was excited, he had never seen an old man fly before". Ummm ....................... Yea. He probably hasn't.

*He got Isekai'd* Before Isekai was even a thing

In Brazil "Spirited Away" was translated as "Chihiro's trip"(A viagem de Chihiro). We don't have a word for being kidnapped by a god, but we have the legend of the of the Sack man/Bag man, a man with a sack on his back who carries naughty children away. The legend evolved with time: Originally he only took the children away to a far land, then he sold the children to charcoal mines to work as slaves, and now the works for an international children's organ smuggling gang.

was 100% sure the title would be: "Pedobear in ancient japan era"

Spirited Away is what got me addicted to Anime

So spirited away is a form of kidnapping?

The Island of Women sounds like cannibalistic Amazons

Torakichi was delighted; he had never seen an old man fly before. Sure, he saw other people do it all the time, but it was nonetheless impressive.

“The women ‘devoured’ the men...” Me: Death by snu snu.

Story: Unknown man in strange vehicle: "come with me I'll show you many wondrous places" Kid is hesitant. Man offers cookies ... adventures ensue. Reality: Body found 3 months later in the woods.

aah this video reminds me of how absolutely terrified my grandma was of letting me go to the river alone as a kid. She kept telling me stories of the kappa and told me he would take me away if I ever went there alone or at sunset.

The have a similar story to the bowl flying kami in Arabia. It’s called Aladdin.

"Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Marx. (Groucho Marx)

There is a similar folktales in the Nepali Gorkha clans where it is said that the forest gods abduct young children and raise them teaching them mystic rituals and blessing them with power only to return them to society once they have passed puberty and have completed their mystic education. Nice work Lord Lin many more to go.

All jokes aside- one thing I actually genuinely love about this channel is how you manage to go into the details of every possible little thing. You focus on the main theme, sure, but you also give tiny additional bits of information that add more detail to the story. Keep up the good work! ♪

Let’s be honest he’s better at teaching Japanese history than well payed history teacher

“They slipped into the skin of the dogs.” Me: *FURRIES*

Him: whats spirited away mean? Me : *shoves anime down his throat*

5:45-6:35 Well you just explained wtf Furries were back in the day damnit. 🤦🏼‍♂️

I bet it was really fun interviewing this kid. He seemed like a fun guy to hang out with and listen to all his crazy stories.

4:07 “You could escape these mountain men if you were a clever dwarf from a well-to-do family.” Tyrion Lannister, anyone?

"I don't know how to read, so everything I said must be true" started a religion.

Being Kidnapped by the Gods? Seems more like a free vacation on the skies for me smh. Where do i sign up lol

We also have something similar in our folktales, and sometimes it happens to this day. They used to find them in places that would be impossible for humans to go by themselves like in crevices under cliffs and forests far away from the place they were missing. They reported eating what they saw as meat and vegetables which were actually worms and dfallen leaves. It usually is bad

I'm gonna go with hallucinations (is there anything like magic mushrooms in Japan?) because this all sounds like an ancient acid trip, or possibly a series of vivid and connecting dreams.

Kamikakushi (神隠し ) literally means 'Hidden by kami'. Kakusu means 'to hide or conceal'. I guess abducted doesn't make any difference. Even though I know some stories that Linfany narrates it's fun see his videos and how he narrates the story

I think its interesting that what he said about the temperature fluctuating depending on how high you are is true to some degree. Im not an expert but i remember learning about it in science class

So i was watching this game show and the person had to pick a topic for the whole game show and got Japanese origins and myths....from watching you I got all the answers right and ended up getting all the answers right...freaked out my family in Newfoundland

Being spirited away is a phenomenon known in many animistic societies across the globe. It's perceived through the cultural lends of the time and place. For instance many have connected fairy abduction experiences to alien abductions etc. Sorry for going off topic I just find it interesting how such things happen cross culturally. I love your videos

This happens in the Hmong culture too. Sometimes ghosts or spirits will appear in dreams, trying to take them away to the spirit world (meaning person would die in their sleep). It is especially a bad omen if you dream about dragons. There’s other things like if you fall in a river/lake your “spirit” falls into the water too so it needs to be called back by releasing a duck into the water and having it swim back. There’s also warnings that ghosts can attach themselves to you and follow you home. People would get sick and need a ritual done by a shaman to get better. These beliefs still continue today.

Island of the Dog People. Their period must be in the Edog Period. I'll see myself out.

0:49 Linfamy : ki- Me : Me :*kiDNaPpIngLY* I love that word It so sexy ;)

“The land of dog people” Welp, I don’t plan on visiting that with my fear of dogs-

"One of the bajillion gods." - I lost it at this point. This channel is awesome. =D

Interestingly accurate description of the atmospheric temperature (although you wouldn't actually feel hot, the atmosphere is still very hot)

Keep Up The Good Work Linfamy! 🥰😇

Kappa (4:14) have a seriously dark history. In the Tohoku region centuries ago, famine regularly wiped out swaths of the population. Things would get so desperate that new mothers would sacrifice their infants so there would be less mouths to feed. A common practice was to take them to a stream at night and perform a ritual that would turn the child's spirit into a kappa. It ended with her crushing the infant's skull saying the words 'A kappa needs a place for it's water.' Kappa are depicted with a water filled indentation on the top of their heads. To this day there are rituals at some shrines called water child ceremonies for the spirits of lost or miscarried infants.

Me:*reads the title * Also me:*looks at the thumbnail * After that :WTH!?

He told her not to look back. 😭💓

OMG im waiting for thissss i havent watch it but i know its gonna be the *BEST*

I remember when you had less than 1k subs, proud of you boii

hey linfamy m.curtis here, been watching the channel for a long time and thank you for the content. have a good one

I love your content on japanese lore keep up the good work very educational.

linfamy: he had never seen an old man fly me:SHOCKING

The oldest version of A white van with free candy trick

This is soooo educational!

Good work bro

Me: watch kimetsu no yaiba KZfaq recommendation: here's Linfamy

This was a really cool story. Someone should turn this into an anime. You'd have to add a villain and explain the story a little more. This is a really cool building point for a wild tale to be spun from though. You have a hero to go on a journey. You have a mentor.

I like how infamy’s character wears a scarf because it reminds me of the folk tale of the woman with no neck as it’s held up by a scarf

AWESOME MOVIE and this is a GREAT video ! :-)

🎶I can show you the world. Shining shimmering splendid 🎶

Him: dont eat for 100 da- Me: *YOU DARE TO INSULT ME?*

Damn that turn around was fast! Love the channel man!

Another fascinating video.

This story I really enjoyed. Except the dog part.I love listening to this channel. I guess this is what my teacher was referring to when he'd say "Learning can be fun".

it's chilling that tales like this not only have been told for thousands of years, but similar things are still happening today. a dude named Paulides has done a lot of research on it, and the more you hear about it, the weirder it gets! (he called it missing 411)

Great video. Noice closing music

thankyou for putting a cute puppy that calmed me down a little 🐶 ❤

Wow I love the beliefs on the age of the children being both Human and Kami. So cool.

Its 12midnight and I'm here watching this video while half asleep. The things I do 4 us vids keep me sleep deprived 😂

I haven't even seen the video yet and I LOVED it💖

I've been watching your work for a couple of months now and you're doing great work! You're hysterical 😂 and I love hearing about the ji samurai and the yamabushi that lived in the mountains of iga and koga. It's magical in my mind. Anyways, Keep at it 👍

If that tengu is real, I would want that flying bowl lol

95k now Marry my daughters to agree

Love this channel Again... But really I really love this chanel

that was a great video thumbs up twice

"Chronophage" is a French word for things that eat up your time. Like, you know... KZfaq. ^^"

I love that you picked up this quite unknown story! Lately here in Japan the modern Japanese translation of the story became a huge topic on Twitter which actually no one knows why. Bookstores sell it with a nice Tengu cover under the title of 仙境異聞 'Miraculous stories from the Land of Hermits' I am reading the book lately and tried to find some content about it on youtube but there was almost nothing until I coincidentally found your clip! I am watching your other clips and I am a huge fan, studying Japanese religions and adding some special knowledge thanks to you! btw Torakichi looks so cute with that adorable hairstyle😋

That's neat about the age of seven thing. In ancient Rome, a child was considered an infant until the age of seven because that was the general age of when a child's baby teeth would come out, or at least start to. I think maybe the Japanese had the same sort of logic in that childhood transition.

YES! 100K IS IMPORTANT DAMMIT! HOPE U GET THEM SOON why CAPS LOCK tho?

Video ends at 10:01 Me: *_R E S P E C T +_*

Dog people have dogs Me: That's so cute:) Dog people are actually real people who killed and skinned their dogs Me: WHAT THE FLIP, BURN YOU TENGU SPAWN

Woah this channel grew real fast

Sadly, I was eating lunch when the video reached the min 5:58... hahaha, awesome video.

0:45 "A whole new world..." ♫

6:00 this brought a WHOLE new meaning of furry

*gasp* :O I just watched Spirit away yesterday at Facebook :0 And then i saw new notification now :)

---- > THANK YOU so very much ! ---- WONDERFUL Interesting as hell Information !! ---- I just subscribed ...... - I always wanted to get an idea of what spirited away was about --- --- We are looking forward to seeing a lot of your vlogs ! - --- So many that we have to see yet ! ---- Cheers my Intelligent friend ! -

*Tengu:* "Mah boy... You faced many of my tests, and proved that you are worthy of my teachings..." 👺 *Da boy:* "Yes master. It was hard. But I did as thou wished" 😄 *Tengu:* "Now my youngling. Only one last test remains before you can finaly learn the last secret of all..." 👺 *Da boy:* "Yes master. Tell me about it" 🙂 *Tengu:* "You see me long, thick, veiny nose mah boy??" 👺 *Da boy:* "Uuuh... Yes...?" 😕 *Tengu:* "Stroke it me boy..." 👺 *Da boy:* "... what?" 😟 *Tengu:* "STROKE IT MAH BOY!" STROKE IT LIKE YOU NEVER STROKE SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE!!" 👺 *Da boy:* "B-but I don't wanna...😰" *Tengu:* *DO IT YOU MOTHERFUCKER, OR I'LL GET YOU BACK IN THE ISLAND OF DOGS AND SELL YOU AS FOOD LIKE THE DOG YOU ARE!!!* 👺 *Da boy:* 😭 ✨ *CHILD KIDNAPPING* ✨ It's fine if a god does it. 💁🤷🐉

Tbh I kinda wanna get spirited away and see all of those amazing things. Although the dog people kinda.... Hmm...

We Mizos also have similar folktales like the Yamaotoko(mountain man) that you have mentioned in this video...they were used to be commonly worshipped by sacrificing animals like pigs,dogs and chickens to cure diseases (they didn't have hospitals back then). They are also known for stealing men and women

This dude cracks me up

4:12 WTF is that picture?! LOL /kappa

6:04 Oh my God, the Tengu brought the kid to an ancient Furry convention. :O

And I just finished baking this chocolate cake. Great timing.

In all seriousness, I wouldn't be surprised if there is some truth to the concepts. Consider modern accounts of people going missing abruptly or stories of alien abductions. Japan even had stories of what was likely the first documented account of a UFO. There are also stories of people abruptly disappearing while for no apparent cause while traveling together in the woods. Here's my own experience : This one time I went with a group to a forest. I stepped through a bush to see a bench overlooking a lake. I sat down and watched the sunset over the hills in the distance and the sunset appeared to move much faster until it was nearly fully set within a few moments, and then I observed the sunset reverse to be near where it was. All this lasted a few minutes from my perspective when I suddenly heard people calling from me. I didn't want to turn around, I felt almost compelled to stay, but then I turned around and called out. One of my friends stepped through the bush and asked where I was, that they were looking all over for me, and I was gone for over an hour. So I lost around an hour of time watching the sun move in fast forward and reverse. Obviously the sun doesn't move that way, so I figured that time itself must have flowed differently. Some years later I returned to that spot - around "Iron Gate" in Illinois - and the bushes were cut back so the spot wasn't concealed anymore. I sat on the bench and took a picture of where I was facing and a pillar of light was seen in front of a cabin across the water, but I didn't otherwise experience anything else.

After watching this video. Me:(tightly hugs my doggo and fears to go near woman's comfort room)

Naruto has a girl who was “spirited away” too

Thanks!

I love ANIME!!! And I love your video’s!!!

Hirata Atsutane is the author of Senkyo Ibn He brings a new flow to the national studies, and is called one of the big four of the national studies with nida, Kamo, and Motoorii He is said to have been well versed in Western medicine, Latin, calendar, easy studies, and military studies, and researched and analyzed various religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Dutch Studies, and Christianity. His story is strange and interesting.There's a lot of talk about youkai In his story, the name of the General of the Japanese Youkai is Sanmoto gorozaemon Sanmoto gorozaemon is said to have fought Shinno Akigoro and became a youkai general

so Rick kidnaped Morty and took him to furry iland ok!?🤔

2:56 when your about to say "shrine maiden" i was expecting to see a photo of Reimu hakurei from Touhou

My notifications didn’t work :( But great vid tho!