The Hand Spirits are Spirits who serve under the Mountain Spirit. They are the smaller variant of the Giant Hand Spirits.
Appearance[]
Hand Spirits appear as dark shadow-like hands with a white dot as its eye. It has dark mist or flames escaping from where the wrist is. Its size is that of a small child.
Behavior[]
The Hand Spirits follow the orders of the Mountain Spirit. They followed his orders in causing havoc in the Downtown area by destroying the Salt that was protecting the area.
They attack the Protagonist when she trespasses in their master's domain. Once she enters their range, they attack her by acting like hands stretching out to grab her. When they do grab her, the smaller ones probably strangle her to death.
If the girl lights the small shrine in their area, the small Hand Spirits will disappear.
Mythology and Theories[]
A Hand Spirit is first witnessed at the Prologue of Yomawari: Night Alone, moving quickly behind the Protagonist and Poro while the latter two were going home after checking out the tunnel. It seemed to have moved around through the trees at the west, which expand to the trees growing above the wall that's next to the road that the Protagonist and Poro walked down to head home.
It is possible that this Spirit may have knocked the Pebble that the Protagonist saw fall from the top of the wall. Meaning, this Spirit was responsible (intentionally or accidentally) for causing the Protagonist to play fetch with Poro using that Pebble, leading to the unintentional death of Poro by a speeding truck.
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