ん～？涙が出るほど食べたいの？食いしん坊だね。遠慮しないで一杯食べてね！

Well, there are worse places where he could pour those beans... but it still has to hurt like hell, even such a strong oni as Suika.

Hmm? You want to eat it so badly you're crying? What a glutton. Don't hold back; go ahead and eat it all in one gulp!

Gaoo wa soto! Oni wa uchi!

I have never been ashamed of an erection before, but this was close

In what way do beans hurt oni anyway? Do they burn or melt or what?

Zaku_Zelo said:
In what way do beans hurt oni anyway? Do they burn or melt or what?

Old Japanese stories saying this type of beans are used to keep Oni away. Also used in some children games I think.

omegaworld said:
Old Japanese stories saying this type of beans are used to keep Oni away. Also used in some children games I think.

I know that. I'm asking WHY they keep them away.
What exactly is going to happen when he dumps those beans Suika's throat?

Zaku_Zelo said:
I know that. I'm asking WHY they keep them away.
What exactly is going to happen when he dumps those beans Suika's throat?

From TH wiki

Skin burning upon touching roasted soybeans
This is a weakness that vampires share with oni. However, it seems fine if it is not roasted soybeans.

So it really must hurt like hell.

[KN] said:
From TH wiki
So it really must hurt like hell.

So to oni they'd be equivalent of hot coals or molten lead or something? Fun.

...or does that not mean literally burning? Like poison ivy or something.

BASTARD! WHAT IS THE COLOR OF YOUR BLOOD?!

Odd, I thought that the mythos for beans keeping oni away was just because if you scattered them around in a room, then the oni would have to stop and count all of them before they could do anything else.

Btw, OCD monsters =/= scary

Spyke114 said:
Odd, I thought that the mythos for beans keeping oni away was just because if you scattered them around in a room, then the oni would have to stop and count all of them before they could do anything else.

Btw, OCD monsters =/= scary

Isn't that leprechauns? A wide variety of European mythological creatures, actually. Not always beans, but large amounts of small objects thrown around near them. I'm really not sure where the idea came from that monsters are all OCD-ridden.

user_236244 said:

Odd, I thought that the mythos for beans keeping oni away was just because if you scattered them around in a room, then the oni would have to stop and count all of them before they could do anything else.

Btw, OCD monsters =/= scary

pretty sure that worked in a batman comic on two-face once, actually. he flipped a coin and batman threw a bunch of quarters at him, so he couldn't decide anything.......or something like that.

...I do indeed have no life, 'tis true.

Gaius94 said:

pretty sure that worked in a batman comic on two-face once, actually. he flipped a coin and batman threw a bunch of quarters at him, so he couldn't decide anything.......or something like that.

...I do indeed have no life, 'tis true.

That only worked because the scattered quarters kept Two-Face from finding the double-sided coin he uses to make all of his decisions (Two-Face's gimmick being that he makes all of his decisions based on a coin toss, with his two-sided "lucky" coin where one of the face sides is horribly scarred like his own face, believing that everything should be left to fate to decide).

Actually, it's not just European monsters either. I seem to recall at least one Chinese monster will be compelled to stop and count rice if it's thrown on the floor (I think it's a weakness of jiangshi in some stories). There may be a Japanese equivalent too. What a weird thing for European and Asian monsters to have in common...

nooo not the beans..