Took a little break, but here's the next creature. I like the design, but I got lazy with the shading because I'm tired.

Anyway, the Baku. A mostly benevolent creature that would eat the nightmares of people when called upon. The pokemon Drowzee is based on the Baku legend.


"Baku are generally benign creatures who aid human being s by eating nightmares or the evil spirits that cause such dreams. Sometimes they do this unbidden, but other legends require a nightmare sufferer to awaken and call upon a baku to eat his dreams. According to some beliefs, baku can change eaten dreams to good luck.

When a dream is bad, you can speak from within the dream if you have the presence of mind, or once you wake up distraught utter the appeal, "Baku, devour this dream!" Baku will then come and eat your bad dream, leaving you to have a pleasant sleep from then on. Because of this, he is probably one of the better-known youkai, since of course parents tell their children about baku to reassure them before they go to sleep.

Other tales make the baku more troublesome, eating all dreams and thus depriving sleepers of their beneficial effects, or simply awakening sleepers and depriving them of sleep in general. "

-Monstropedia

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