Japanese legends, Davis retelling
Baku
Davis gives Baku a composite animal form and records a call asking it to devour an evil dream. Its name or image can be placed near sleepers. The account further credits it with changing an evil dream into good fortune.
Also known as Dream Devourer
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In the sources
Account in the source
TraditionalDavis gives Baku a composite animal form and records a call asking it to devour an evil dream.
Further detail
TraditionalIts name or image can be placed near sleepers. The account further credits it with changing an evil dream into good fortune.
Context & interpretation
The entry describes Davis’s folklore of dreams, not a demonstrated treatment for nightmares or evidence of a dream-eating animal. Both quoted details occur on the same reader leaf; two source records therefore represent one distinct cited page. Composite attributes vary beyond this account.
Original passages
Source 1
Myths and Legends of Japan
Devour, O Baku! devour my evil dream.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Davis, Myths & Legends of Japan, active reader leaf 389
Checked against the active prepared edition; reader leaf and original-page mapping verified, spacing normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0052-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0052-E001-P0389
- Original scan leaf
- 423
- Recorded leaf number
- 423
- Current Reader position
- 388
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
Source 2
Myths and Legends of Japan
the creature had the power to change it into good fortuneOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Davis, Myths & Legends of Japan, active reader leaf 389
Checked against the active prepared edition; reader leaf and original-page mapping verified, spacing normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0052-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0052-E001-P0389
- Original scan leaf
- 423
- Recorded leaf number
- 423
- Current Reader position
- 388
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
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