Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-13895380-20170923035330/@comment-4091815-20171103195500

Like the Nogitsune, the Anuk-Ite is basically without form. It manifests as the spiders and infects a host body.

Anything the Anuk-Ite infected took on this fear-generating quality. It was most intense in the full, faceless body form, but we see indications of it lingering in other victims after the Anuk-Ite had moved on.

The faceless body itself generated a field of fear even when it was "de-animated" in the morgue the dead wolves and rats did too.