right|thumb|200px|"Mōryō" (Wiktionary:魍魎|魍魎) from the [[Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki by Toriyama Sekien]] Mōryō or mizuha ( or ) is a collective term for spirits of mountains and rivers, trees and rocks, as well as mononoke that live in places like graveyards, or kappa and various other yōkai. There is also mizu no kami as well to refer to them.
right|thumb|200px|"Mōryō" (Wiktionary:魍魎|魍魎) from the [[Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki by Toriyama Sekien]] Mōryō or mizuha ( or ) is a collective term for spirits of mountains and rivers, trees and rocks, as well as mononoke that live in places like graveyards, or kappa and various other yōkai. There is also mizu no kami as well to refer to them.
==Mythology== Originally, they were a kind of spirit from nature in China. In the Huainanzi, there is the statement that "mōryō have a shape like that of a three-year-old little child, are dark red in color, have red eyes, long ears, and beautiful hair." In the Compendium of Materia Medica, there is the statement "mōryō like to eat the innards of the dead. It would then perform the 'Rites of Zhou', take a dagger-axe and go into the grave hole, and bring destruction. In its true nature, the mōryō is fearful of tigers and oak, and is given the name . They go underground and eat the brains of the dead, but it is said that when an oak is pressed against their necks, they die. These are the ones called mōryō."
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).