Amabie
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amabie-307-13448517
title:
Amabie
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Amabie (アマビエ) is a legendary Japanese mermaid or merman with a bird beak-like mouth and three legs or tail-fins, who allegedly emerges from the sea, prophesies either an abundant harvest or an epidemic, and instructed people to make copies of its likeness to defend against illness. The amabie appears to be a variant or misspelling of the amabiko or amahiko, otherwise known as the amahiko-nyūdo (尼彦入道), also a prophetic beast depicted variously in different examples, being mostly as 3-legged or 4-
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description:
Legendary Japanese creature
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amabie
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date modified:
2024-02-09T00:12:04Z
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