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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Shinto And Japanese Spirits

In Japanese mythology, what name is given to the storm god Susanoo’s eight-headed serpent?

Answer

Yamata no Orochi

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Shinto And Japanese Spirits

In Japanese folklore, what one-eyed, three-legged umbrella yōkai is called Karakasa-obake?

Answer

Karakasa-obake

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Shinto And Japanese Spirits

In Japanese folklore, what ghost of a woman who died during pregnancy or childbirth is called an ubume?

Answer

Ubume

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Shinto And Japanese Spirits

In Shinto, what is the innermost sanctuary of a shrine, where the kami is enshrined, called?

Answer

Honden

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Shinto And Japanese Spirits

In Shinto, what name is given to sacred dance and music performed for the kami?

Answer

Kagura

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Shinto And Japanese Spirits

In Japanese folklore, what spider yōkai is said to transform into a beautiful woman?

Answer

Jorogumo

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Shinto And Japanese Spirits

In Japanese folklore, what snow woman is said to appear on freezing mountain nights?

Answer

Yuki-onna

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Ragnarok And The Norse Apocalypse

In Norse mythology’s Ragnarok, what celestial body does the daughter of the sun goddess Sól replace?

Answer

The Sun

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Ragnarok And The Norse Apocalypse

In Norse mythology’s Ragnarok, which two humans survive hidden in Hoddmímis holt and repopulate the renewed world?

Answer

Líf and Lífþrasir

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• Ragnarok And The Norse Apocalypse

In Norse mythology’s Ragnarok, what does the sun Sól give birth to before the wolf catches her?

Answer

A daughter

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Ragnarok And The Norse Apocalypse

In Norse mythology’s Ragnarok, from which fiery realm do Surtr and the fire giants come?

Answer

Muspelheim

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Ragnarok And The Norse Apocalypse

In Norse mythology, Fenrir—the wolf who breaks free at Ragnarok—is the son of which god?

Answer

Loki

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