This is my entry to Jazza's monthly competition.
They lived between 1850 and 1870, during the time Samurais were active. They formed when a samurai and a horse was buried together and came back to "eat" souls through their nostrils.
They however went extinct after a few years as humans realised they were allergic to salt water.
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