Compare Undead From Folklore Around The World

The Gashadokuro is a spirit that take the form of giant skeletons made of the skulls of people who died in the battlefield, and is 10 meters tall. Only the eyes protrude, and some sources describe them as burning yellow or green.

Mummies are commonly featured in horror genres as undead creatures wrapped in bandages.

The Grim Reaper is often depicted as a hooded skeleton holding a scythe. Death as one of the biblical horsemen of the Apocalypse has been depicted as a skeleton riding a horse.

In Sekien's explanatory text in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki states that there is a story called Otogi Bōko in which an aged female skeleton would carry a lantern decorated with botan flowers on it and visit the house of a man she loved back when she was still alive, and then cavort with that man.