Hachishaku-sama and other Shota legends

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Hachishaku-sama and other Shota legends

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So what does everyone think about the Hachishaku-sama legend?

Hachishaku-sama are spiritual entities in Japan that hunt male children between the ages of ages 9 and 17 and will stalk and abduct, or otherwise possess, them within the span of several days. One theory states that the Hachishaku-sama was once a divine spirit of child fertility who, on the parents' behest, introduced pubescent and prepubescent boys to sex by seducing and fornicating with them, taking the potent life energy that the children's bodies emit during sex as tribute. As a fertility spirit she used sex and sexual pleasure to guide a boy's sexual development; encouraging them to explore their developing bodies and urges with her and teaching them everything there was to know about sex and sexuality. As a result of her influence the boys she taught developed into strong and well-balanced men both physically and emotionally. However, come the onset of Christianity in Japan and the rendering of all things sexual as taboo and forbidden, the Hachishaku-sama became shunned and forgotten. Resentful of her neglection, the Hachishaku-sama eventually became a lonely, malevolent spirit who now preys on boys who are on the cusp of their sexual development; hunting, abducting, seducing and eventually killing them over the span of a few days.

Also I've been looking up "life energy" recently and I came across this bit of information:
In terms of potency, life energy is the most potent the younger the being is; thusly the life energy of a child is considerably more potent, or "pure", than an elderly adult's. This is the reasoning behind the sacrificing of children to gods and deities as the entity would coerce and absorb the children's life energies to maintain their god-like power. However, although incredibly potent, a child's small size means that they would have less amounts of life energy to absorb than an adult's. Due to this, and the tendency people have towards keeping their young under constant protection, entities that feed on life energy tend to prey on beings that are midway in age; between their childhood and their elderly years.

It is said a pubescent or prepubescent boy's dry orgasm (an orgasm without ejaculate or sperm due to the testes being too young to be active) is an entity's greatest feast as, in lew of sperm, a boy's aroused penis freely emits their life energy during arousal and can readily shoot their soul during orgasm. This makes young boys, whose souls are already considered extremely potent energy, an extremely desirable target and sexual dreams/wet dreams amongst pubescents and prepubescents were often attributed to entities performing sexual acts upon pubescent/prepubescent boys as they slept in order to feed on/harvest their life energy. Due to this belief, western cultures often attempted to discourage children from masturbating to prevent the loss of their purity through orgasm.

Much like pubescent/prepubescent boys, the souls/vaginal energy of pubescent/prepubescent girls were considered to be highly sought after. To this end young girls were encouraged to always keep their vaginas and breasts covered or concealed from both adults and other children less an entity saw their exposed bodies and began pursuing them in order to feed on their vaginas and breasts and suck out their souls (this is in contrast to an older belief where a woman's vagina, when exposed, was believed to hold the power to repel evil entities and sickness (see Sheela na gig, Anasyrma)). Women were also forbidden from masturbation as the act of exposing themselves during masturbation was considered to be a deliberate invitation made by the woman to invite any nearby entities into eating her and that the sensations she felt while masturbating, while pleasurable, were being caused by invisible entities eating her vagina and that an orgasm was the sensation of her soul being eaten.
Much like boys, sexual dreams and nocturnal emissions while sleeping were attested to devils and entities assailing girls while they slept. Witches were believed to seduce and engage in lesbian sex with teenage girls so that they could draw out and use the girls' youthful souls to maintain their youth and mystical powers.

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Interesting, this made me think of Ouzen in Made in Abyss, a series that seems to flirt a lot with the desirability of children (available on Netflix). Maybe she’s supposed to be a hachishakusama character, and all viewers in Japan just get it.
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