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Creatures: Kappa (Japanese water Demon)
Kappa is a magical creature, a Japanese water demon, a demon that inhabits shallow lakes and rivers.
His name literally means "child of water"in Japanese.
Kappa is the Japanese spelling of the name Kappa (literally - "river child") and its transliteration in Latin Mazzutora is one of the names of the Kappa Mizutora is one of the names of the Kappa
Habitat: It lives in shallow lakes and rivers, and likes to drown everyone who carelessly approaches it.
The most common in Japan.
(Professor Snape said that their habitat is Mongolia, but according to the book "Magical Creatures and where to Find them" and the mythology of Japan, kappas are common there).
Over one of the Japanese rivers the Azusagawa, there is a bridge which is called the "Kappa Bridge" – "Kappabashi".
The largest number of mouthguards live in this river, and the bridge itself is famous for the beauty of the views.
However, even on earth, Kappa feels quite confident.
They say that he comes out of the water in order to steal a melon or cucumbers, a horse or a cow, and maybe a person.
Appearance: In the view of the Japanese, the kappa is an exclusively male creature.
Kappa looks like a monkey with fish scales instead of fur, and on his head there is a hole in which he carries water, or they look like small naked men, with a shield made of turtle shell and a head shaped like a round bowl filled with water, or they look like a turtle, with a shell, a flat beak and green skin, about the height of a 10 year old child.
But all these descriptions have one similarity - the liquid on the top of the head, which gives the kappa supernatural power.
Kappa feeds on human blood and also on the blood of animals, sucking it through the anus, so they hide in the water and drag unsuspecting passers - by to the bottom and devour them.
Kappa are also very fond of sumo wrestling and force their victims to fight with them.
They are very fond of cucumbers or melons There are three ways to avoid kappa - the first is to throw him a cucumber with the name of a particular person carved on it (or just cut the cucumber into pieces and throw it into the water) after receiving his kappa, he does not pay any attention to people.
The second way is to throw a melon to kappa, kappa loves them as much as cucumbers and you will have a good chance to escape while Kappa will deal with the melon.
The third way is to trick Kappa into bowing.
For example, he will bow to him first.
His politeness will take over, he will also bow, and the water will pour out, the kappa will lose its magical power.
Kappa is considered a very dangerous creature in Japan, which trades by luring people and animals into the water with cunning or dragging them by force.
A typical image of a kappa is the image of a thief, as a rule, caught and punished.
Kappa is fooled, they do everything to make him lose his power, and then they take a promise from him not to harm people, especially children.
Magical properties: They have supernatural power.
In water, Kappa is truly omnipotent.
The center of this force is a bowl with a liquid that is located on the head of the kappa, if water pours out of the head of the cup, then the kappa remains helpless until the bowl on the head is filled with water again.
Also, mouthguards are useful - they protect the water from contamination.
Kappa know the way of instant enrichment, because they have their own miraculous attributes — a beater and a brocade bag..
You need to hit the beater, make a wish, and then everything you want will appear from the bag
Myths, legends and legends about Kappa:
In Japan, when they want to emphasize someone's special talent, they say that teaching this person his own craft is like "teaching a kappa to swim".
The most common motive of "hunting" Kappa on the horse.
H. Ikeda, a well known author of catalog based on Japanese folklore, has designated it as a "Water monster, which brought the horse" S. Thompson added "Water monster trying to drag a horse to water, but the horse delivered to the house, where it begs for mercy and says goodbye to the Legend Kappa from Fukuoka" In legend tells of a merman, three nights in a row I went to the house of a man tear his hand.
He cried and begged to return it, because he knew how to heal severed limbs, but only for three days.
As usually happens in such cases, the person took pity on the kappa, taking a promise from him not to harm the inhabitants of this village.
"Even today," the narration ends, "sometimes on hot summer days a voice comes from the river:" Do not allow children to play on the bank, otherwise a guest will come to you!""
Everyone knows that this guest is a kappa, and therefore children never go into the river near the village.
Sometimes, in exchange for a hand, kappa, as a sign of gratitude, taught a person the art of healing.
He presented him with a gift, most often a fish, after eating which a person realized that he was a chiropractor.
Legends of this kind often end with a direct reference to a well known healer in the area, saying that the secret of kappa is passed down from generation to generation and therefore this chiropractor is a direct descendant of the person to whom kappa revealed his secrets.
In 1955, Professor T. Yoshida recorded a legend about kappa in the mountain village of Yamatomura, who called a strongman named Goro to fight.
The young man realized that if he did not eat, he would not be able to overcome the kappa, and he interrupted the duel, went to a Buddhist temple and ate rice sacrificed to the Buddha there.
After that, he felt an unprecedented surge of strength and easily defeated kappa, laying him on the ground so that water poured out of the hollow on his head.
The fairy tale "The Magic Beater" by the Repoed Jinshiro.
The young man saved the falcon, who in gratitude caught a mouthguard for him, and he in turn parted with his magic beater ( an object of instant enrichment) in exchange for his life.
For the first time, kappa is mentioned in the book "Nohon Reiki", VIII century: "In the representations of people, kappa is an exclusively male creature, having the appearance of an ungainly teenager with greenish yellow skin and webbed hands and feet.
His face looks like a monkey, and his eyes are round.
On his back is a shell like a turtle, he smells of fish, and he is completely naked.
On the head of the kappa there is a special recess in which water splashes.
It is this depression that is the place of concentration of the power of the kappa — if water flows out of this hollow, the water child loses its power and becomes completely helpless.
Kappa was considered a very dangerous creature in Japan, which traded by luring people and animals into the water by cunning or dragging them by force."
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