Odd, I thought that the mythos for beans keeping oni away was just because if you scattered them around in a room, then the oni would have to stop and count all of them before they could do anything else.
Spyke114 said: Odd, I thought that the mythos for beans keeping oni away was just because if you scattered them around in a room, then the oni would have to stop and count all of them before they could do anything else.
Btw, OCD monsters =/= scary
Isn't that leprechauns? A wide variety of European mythological creatures, actually. Not always beans, but large amounts of small objects thrown around near them. I'm really not sure where the idea came from that monsters are all OCD-ridden.
Odd, I thought that the mythos for beans keeping oni away was just because if you scattered them around in a room, then the oni would have to stop and count all of them before they could do anything else.
Btw, OCD monsters =/= scary
pretty sure that worked in a batman comic on two-face once, actually. he flipped a coin and batman threw a bunch of quarters at him, so he couldn't decide anything.......or something like that.
pretty sure that worked in a batman comic on two-face once, actually. he flipped a coin and batman threw a bunch of quarters at him, so he couldn't decide anything.......or something like that.
...I do indeed have no life, 'tis true.
That only worked because the scattered quarters kept Two-Face from finding the double-sided coin he uses to make all of his decisions (Two-Face's gimmick being that he makes all of his decisions based on a coin toss, with his two-sided "lucky" coin where one of the face sides is horribly scarred like his own face, believing that everything should be left to fate to decide).
Actually, it's not just European monsters either. I seem to recall at least one Chinese monster will be compelled to stop and count rice if it's thrown on the floor (I think it's a weakness of jiangshi in some stories). There may be a Japanese equivalent too. What a weird thing for European and Asian monsters to have in common...