Ōmukade

Ōmukade (おおむかで, "giant centipede") is a Yōkai in Japanese mythology.

Mythology

The Ōmukade is a giant man-eating centipede that lives in the mountains. While it eats humans, the Ōmukade has a weakness to human saliva.

One Ōmukade was featured in the story My Lord Bag of Rice where it killed the sons and grandsons of a Japanese dragon princess until it was killed by Fujiwara no Hidesato.

Popular culture

• Different adaptions of Ōmukade appear in the Super Sentai franchise:
  • In Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, the Ōmukade has a football-theme to it. In Season 3 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, it was adapted into Centiback.
  • In Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, the Ōmukade is the result of a Sealing Shuriken coming in contact with a power strip. This monster has energy-eating abilities. In Power Rangers Ninja Steel, it was adapted into Voltipede.

• In Yo-kai Watch, the Ōmukade has the ability to make anyone it inspirits into becoming easily ticked off and burst into angry rants. His name in the English dub is Irewig.