Talk:Yama-uba

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Gutting Poor Yamauba
I'm not sure why a large portion of articles on Japanese kami are spelled with the hyphen, considering that sort of went out of vogue back in 1902 but no matter. I was at first impressed with the large amount of text that was on this page ... until I read it and realized that not only did it repeat itself in many, many places, but that almost 99% of the text appeared to be plagiarism, since the article went into such obscure detail that either we have a master of Japanese folklore on our hands who refuses to divulge where all his/her information came from or someone simply cut/pasted the text in, not bothering to add those pesky references and citations. Either way it got nuked from orbit. Duende-Poetry (talk) 03:00, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Don't know if this is workable or not as a section here...
In reading this entry, doesn't it strike ANYONE else that the Yaba-uba may have been an inspiration for those soul-eating time-traveling aliens with forehead 'mouths' in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode two-parter, "Time's Arrow"? I wonder if they've ever inspired other sci-fi creatures on film or TV.

Huh... now my headcanon *wants* this in Doctor Who... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.172.206.204 (talk) 15:33, 1 December 2013 (UTC)