Azukiarai

Azukiarai (小豆洗い, "azuki bean washing"), or Azukitogi (小豆とぎ, "azuki bean grinding"), is a ghostly phenomenon in Japanese folklore, in which a mysterious noise that sounds like azuki beans being washed or ground is heard.

("Will I grind my azuki beans, or will I get a person to eat?

[citation needed] While the perpetrator is seldom seen, he is often described as a short-statured man of grotesque appearance with a large balding head, crooked teeth, thin moustache, large bulging yellow eyes, wearing ragged clothes and bent over a pail washing azuki beans.

Azukiarai is sometimes blamed on a tanuki (raccoon dog)[1] or weasel.

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