Is it いる or ある with 物の怪? (Are ghosts animate or inanimate?)


Shall we treat [物の怪]{もののけ} (a kind of ghost) as animate or inanimate? Does it
vary for the different ghosts?




We can say "物の怪がいる", we don't use ある at all with 物の怪, 幽霊, 妖怪, お化け, and so on.
So I guess we treat them as animate.




We can say "物の怪がいる", we don't use ある at all with 物の怪, 幽霊, 妖怪, お化け, and so on.
So I guess we treat them as animate.

