Namahage

Namahage is a daemon like being that is from Japanese folklore, the daemon is portrayed during a new years ritual that takes place on the Oga peninsula area in Northern Honshu, Japan. During the ritual men wear ogre masks and traditional straw capes (Mino), they then armed with Deba knives (now fakes are used often made from wood or papier-mache). The reason for the ritual is to stop laziness so the fully dress ogre men go round finding children that may be lazy or badly behaved and chant.