Kasha (folklore)

This article is about the monster. For the fire cart, see hi no kuruma.
"Kwasha/Kasha"
"Kwasha/kasha"
―Original drawing by Rikan Mitsukata copied by Nabeta Gyokuei, Kaibutsu gahon (1881)

The kasha (obsolete: kwasha; Japanese: 火車, lit. 'fire cart', "burning chariot" or 化車, 'changed wheel') in Japanese folklore is a yōkai said to steal corpses. It is now generally regarded to be a monster in cat-form, though earlier archetypes made them demon-like.

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