If the traveler stops to pick up the baby, konakijiji immediately returns to its original monstrous size, crushing the person. The konaki jiji is a creature with origins in japanese mythology, legend and folklore. Explore captivating myths of japanese deities, yokai, heroes and heroines. Handbook of japanese mythology handbooks of world mythology. Kojiki, records of ancient matters or an account of ancient matters, also sometimes read as furukotofumi, is an early japanese chronicle of myths, legends, songs, genealogies, oral traditions and semihistorical accounts down to 641 concerning the origin of the japanese archipelago, the kami.
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