Gashadokuro - Japan
If your ears start to ring, you may want to run. Gashadokuro announces his arrival by causing a ringing in the ears. At fifteen times the height of a normal human being, he will rip the head off anyone who is too slow to run away in time. Gashadokuro gains his formidable height from accumulating the bones of those who have died from starvation or warfare. (Zombiepedia) The violent and tragic deaths seem to accumulate and fester within the gashadokuro causing it to become so violent that it can only be sated by drinking the blood of the living.
Since there is little written on this particular myth, it is difficult to say where it comes from or what particular cultural fear it addresses. It is likely that the gashadokuro speaks to the fear that warfare brings. With war comes death and a disruption of daily life. Often war can mean a lack of food and other resources needed to feed the populace. The gashadokuro is a manifestation of the anxiety that warfare can bring to society.
Since there is little written on this particular myth, it is difficult to say where it comes from or what particular cultural fear it addresses. It is likely that the gashadokuro speaks to the fear that warfare brings. With war comes death and a disruption of daily life. Often war can mean a lack of food and other resources needed to feed the populace. The gashadokuro is a manifestation of the anxiety that warfare can bring to society.