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July 25, 2025 62 mins
This week we take a look at the Kappa! This legend is from Japan, but is it a cryptid? Is it a spirit? Or is it both? Have you heard about the Kappa?
 

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Uncanny Japan Podcast. May, 2, 2021

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Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (100 Tales of the Strange and Uncanny)

“Tōno Monogatari” by Kunio Yanagita

https://www.tokyosmart.com/blogs/news/kappa-the-water-imp

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