Talk:Mujina

For those who would like to point out that the Inu Yasha faceless woman is called "mu-onna" or "nothing woman" in Japanese: yes, I'm already aware of that. However, she is based on (and acts much like) the mujina legends, and so I've called her as such. An additional wrinkle to all of this is that the story is set in the part of Japan where tanukis are referred to as "mujina", which is why I added the pointer at the top of the page and made corrections in the appropriate Inu Yasha pages. Mitsukai 18:22, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Should this be merged with noppera-bō? -Sean Curtin 08:48, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, no, because in Japan, the mujina refers to a tanuki, while in most of the rest of the world it refers to the noppera-bo. If anything, the page should probably become a disambiguation.--み使い Mitsukai 14:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Equivalence to tanuki
The page for tanuki says:
 * In local dialects, tanuki and mujina (狢, kyujitai: 貉) refer either to a raccoon dog, a badger, or a relative of the badger.

Is this true? If so, it should be reflected here also, instead of saying that it always means the same as tanuki. 24.159.255.29 02:58, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It does indeed seem to be true; the Japanese wikipedia article says it refers primarily to the badger. I've done some editing to reflect that. Kotengu 03:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Croatia?
The mention of a place name in Croatia seems very out of place here. It has nothing to do with the mythological/folklore creature discussed in the article. And besides, it's not even pronounced similar - Croatian as a Slav language prononuces it's "j" as "y". 213.172.254.83 19:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Meles meles?
Why does "badger" pothole to a species whose range isn't even in Japan? Shouldn't it direct people to the article for the Japanese badger? 67.142.162.26 (talk) 21:00, 6 July 2011 (UTC)