Do anyone know some kind of mythological story in which a "kappa" figures? How many in here, besides myself, know what it is?
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Does it involve a jumper?
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1) Kappa is a kind of japanese river imp (in the folklore) "Kappa (河童, Kappa? "river-child"), alternately called GatarÅ (å·å¤ªéƒŽ, GatarÅ? "river-boy") or Kawako (å·å, Kawako? "river-child") , are legendary creatures; a type of water sprite found in Japanese folklore. However they are also considered to be a part of cryptozoology, due to apparent sightings. In Shintoism they are considered to be one of many suijin (literally "water-deity")." Source and interesting information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_%28folklore%29 2) "RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa (èŠ¥å· é¾ä¹‹ä»‹, Akutagawa RyÅ«nosuke?) was a Japanese writer regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story". " "Towards the end of his life, Akutagawa began suffering from visual hallucinations and nervousness over fear that he had inherited his mother's mental disorder." 1927 he wrote 河童 Kappa, "a satire based on a creature from Japanese folklore" (the Kappa from §1 here) 3) here there is other information about them: http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/kappa.shtml http://www.sonic.net/~anomaly/oniko/epaug99.htm http://www.kirainet.com/english/kappa
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