Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-05-18 | Page 3 | Mythical Creatures of Japan

creature of japan the japanese believe in more mythical creatures than any other people on the globe civilized or savage among them arc mythical animals without t any remarkable peculiarities 0 confer r matlon but gifted with supernatural attributes such as a alger which is cald to live to be a thousand years old and to turn as white as a polar bear tbt a multitude of animals distinguished mainly by their monstrous size or by the multiplication of their members among these are serpents feet long and large enough to swallow an elephant foxes eight legs monkeys ears fishes with ten beads attached toone body the flesh of which la a cure or bolls they also believe in the existence of a crane which after it has reached the age of COO years has no need of any sustenance except water