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    World Mook 861 - The Kappa

    World Mook 861 - The Kappa


    $28.00

    • Format: Trade Paperback
    • 128 pages
    • Publisher: World Press Photo
    • Published: January 2011
    • ISBN-10: 4846528618
    • ISBN-13: 9784846528614

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    The Kappa is a Japanese supernatural creature of Japanese folklore with a number of variations. Originally from the Shinto religion, it is a water-dwelling goblin, which explains its other name Kawako (River Chjld). It has the head of a monkey or young human with the limbs of a frog and a tortoise shell body. In one variation its head has a hollow containing a liquid that gives it its strength that it can lose by bowing politely.Another variation is the blood sucker. The traditional vampire is curiously absent from older Japanese lore, but this Kappa comes close. Strangely, it sucks blood through its anus with livestock as its usual victims. Other variations are more typical of Japanese goblins: theft, raping women and eating human livers. This book shows hundreds of Kappas in all its horrendous appearances.
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