Talk:Yama-bito

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Yama-bito? a people not a myth

First, it's Yamabito without the hyphen. An older translation (Primitive & mediaeval Japanese texts, Volume 1, Frederick Victor Dickins) simply translates it as "woodsman," but it's more than that. The Yamabito were an actual marginalized group of people in historic Japan, not some Gaijin fantasy of shape-shifting nonsense. It's not that the Yamabito changed into kami, it's that they told stories about people who interacted with mountain spirits, the kamikakushi: "literally, she has been hidden by the kami, by the spirits. She has been enslaved by some supernatural being." I got this quote, mind you, from the only reference the article so far provides. So three strikes and whoever wrote this faulty sentence is out. Once I get a working bibliography up I'll see what editing I can do. Duende-Poetry (talk) 15:21, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Technically Not An Orphan, But...

This is only a couple of confusing sentences that make up the entry, with no references. What should be done? Duende-Poetry (talk) 19:31, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]