祟たたり神がみ

noun

vengeful spirit that brings calamity; cursing deity

In Shinto belief, a powerful spirit (often of a person who died with a grudge) that causes disasters, plagues, or misfortune. The term is used in mythological and folkloric contexts.

• 祟たたり神がみを鎮しずめるために、神じん社じゃを建たてた。

  They built a shrine to appease the vengeful spirit.

• 古こ事じ記きには、祟たたり神がみとして恐おそれられた神かみ々がみが登とう場じょうする。

  In the Kojiki, deities feared as cursing spirits appear.