![]() ![]() However, he soon realizes that his friend the blue oni hasn't come around, so he goes to the blue oni's house to see if something happened. They enact this plan, and the red oni befriends the humans like he wanted. The blue Oni comes up with a plan: he'd pretend to be an evil oni and attack the human village, and the red oni could heroically come in and save the humans by chasing off the blue oni. Eventually, he asks his friend the blue oni for help on what he should do to let the humans know he was their friend. ![]() However, Oni are known for being scary, and sometimes being man-eaters, so everyone stayed away. In the story, a red Oni tries to become friends with humans, even writing friendly messages on his house and making sweets. ![]() These transformed oni are the ones most legends tell about, and the ones who pose the most danger to humankind.Ī particularly famous Japanese story about Oni is in regard to two oni friends, and one which wants to befriend humans. Occasionally, when a human is so utterly wicked that his soul is beyond any redemption, he transforms into an oni during life, and remains on Earth to terrorize the living. Hell is full of oni, and they make up the armies of the great generals of the underworld. An oni’s job is to mete out horrible punishments such as peeling off skin, crushing bones, and other torments too horrible to describe to those who were wicked (but not quite wicked enough to be reborn as demons themselves). They become the ogreish and brutal servants of Great Lord Enma, ruler of Hell, wielding iron clubs with which they crush and destroy humans solely for enjoyment. Oni are born when truly wicked humans die and end up in one of the many Buddhist Hells, transformed into Oni. ![]()
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