噛み寸白
かみすばく

Translation: biting tapeworm
Habitat: the abdomen

Appearance: Kamisubaku are long white worms that live just behind the liver. Their long bodies are segmented, and each segment has a tiny, biting mouth.

Behavior: As kamisubaku slither around their host’s insides, their many mouths snap and chew at the internal organs. This causes intense abdominal pain.

Interactions: Medicine cannot treat kamisubaku, but there is a magical curse that can kill it. Finely chop some hairs from the tail of a dapple-grey horse and mix it with buckwheat flour. Add sake of the finest grade, and knead the mixture into dough. The hairs of what was once a beautiful horse tail carry with them a residual resentment of being chopped up. When the host eats the dough, the bits that the kamisubaku ingest transfer that resentment into the tapeworms. Their long white bodies are then torn apart from the inside out.