鬼き哭こく

noun

wailing of a ghost; weeping of a departed soul

Formal or literary term for the eerie, sorrowful cries attributed to restless spirits or the dead.

• 夜よ更ふけの墓ぼ地ちから鬼き哭こくが聞きこえるという噂うわさがある。

  There is a rumor that the wailing of ghosts can be heard from the graveyard late at night.

• その怪かい談だんには、戦せん場じょうに漂ただよう鬼き哭こくの描びょう写しゃが繰くり返かえし出でてくる。

  In that ghost story, descriptions of the weeping of departed souls drifting over the battlefield appear repeatedly.