Kappa is a famous amphibious yōkai demon or monster that lurks the rivers of Japanese mythology and folklore. In Japanese folklore, the kappa are mostly represented as green, human-like beings with webbed hands and feet and a carapace on their back resembling a turtle’s.

They’re known for their love of cucumbers and sumo wrestling. In Japanese stories they lure people into the rivers to be drowned. But, one wonders if the Kappa is really evil? Who the Kappa exactly were? What is the truth behind the Kappa? What does it all mean when it comes to the collective unconscious?

Kappa is a slimy and greenish creature that often resembles a certain kind of monkey, giant frog, or turtle. They’re large as a child and quite clumsy on land but at home in water.

In Japanese myths, Kappa has an indentation on top of its head that gets filled with water when they decide to leave the rivers. This indentation also called a dish or sara, allows them not to lose all of their strength when on land.

The Kappa are the provocateurs of great power with menacing intentions towards humans. Kappa resembles the trickster archetype being a psychic embodiment of the spontaneous and creative ability that alters the established systems which we get so used to.

In order for the Kappa to steal the liver of a victim, it needs to suck out or remove the shirikodama which results in death for its owner. Japanese scholars have argued that Kappa offers the shirikodama and/or liver as a tribute to a snake-shaped dragon deity who’s believed to be the lord of waters.
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~ Handbook of Japanese Mythology (World Mythology) by Michael Ashkenazi
~Japanese Mythology by Piggott Juliet
~The Book of Yokai Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore by Michael Dylan Foster
~The Mythology of All Races. Volume VIII. Chinese. Japanese by Ferguson J.C., Anesaki M.
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