horse uma

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- KAPPA - 河童 / かっぱ /　カッパ - animals -
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- horse 駒 koma / 馬 . 午 uma -

komahiki 駒引き / 河童駒引 Kappa the “horse puller”

【河童駒引き(かっぱこまひき)】Kappa Komahiki 《｢日本昔話事典｣稲田浩ニ他》
【民俗学=河童駒引(かっぱこまひき)】Kappa Komahiki 《｢柳田國男全集=山島民譚集｣柳田國男》
【民俗学=河童駒引考】 石田英一郎著 副題「比較民族学的研究」　　



saru hiki koma 猿曳駒 monkey (kappa) leading a horse
which is in fact a kappa leading the horse in the Tono Monogatari
from Tono Hayachine Jinja 遠野早池峰神社
- source : dostoev.exblog.jp


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Monkey “Protector of the Horse”
Another striking overlap between Monkey and Kappa lore is the horse.
In Chinese tradition, the monkey is often shown riding the horse. This symbolism too stems from the classic Chinese story Journey to the West (Saiyuki), in which the Jade Emperor appoints the Monkey to the post of “Protector of Horses.”
The horse also appears quite regularly in Kappa mythology. Dozens of stories tell of the Kappa trying to drag a horse into the river, failing, then getting caught by the horse’s owner, and forced to promise to never again harm the horses of the village. In this roundabout fashion, might we not call the Kappa a “guardian deity” of the horse?
... here also discusses the serial stories called Kappa Heaven, which ran from Showa 28 to Showa 33 in the weekly Asahi Shukan. 実はそれ「清水崑 (Shimizu Kon ) manga aratist, wrote about the Kappa 漫画家が書いた「かっぱ天国
（昭和28年～33年まで『週刊朝日』にて連載）」の河童なんです。
See Ishida Eiichiro’s “The Kappa Legend” for details on the Kappa’s strong link to horses.
- source : Mark Schumacher


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. . . The Kappa’s peculiar behavior of dragging horses into the water is also observed in northwestern European folklore, particularly Finland. In Finnish folklore, the horse-shaped water spirit Näkki resides in rivers and lakes, enticing children and horses to their watery deaths with its shape-shifting capabilities.
“It may also assume the appearance of a tree that has fallen into the water, and as soon as someone climbs on it, it disappears under water, carrying the person with it” (Ishida and Yoshida 1950, 29).
. . . In Greek mythology, the god of the sea,Poseidon, was also credited with fathering the first and many other extraordinary horses. In order to breed divine stallions, pasturing land was often placed near water, thus illuminating the Kappa’s penchant for drowning horses.
- source : Ken Lim


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Bon sugi medochi dan　盆過ぎメドチ談
After the Bon Festivities: Tales of Medochi [Kappa]
Yanagita Kunio 柳田 国男

"In this reason, such instances as the kappa festival in Tosa when horses are tethered to stakes by the waterside may probably be considered as a sort of an old-age pension paid to the mixuchi (mizushi), and such place-names as
Senzoku-no-ike (” Feet-washing pond “) and
Uma-arai-buchi (” Horse-washing pool “), as well as the name
Koma-tsunagi-no matsu (”Horse-tethering pine “),
- - - 洗足の池　／馬荒い淵　／　駒繋ぎの松 - - -

given to certain pine trees in all parts of our country and the reason for which has so far remained unknown, are most likely the relics of yearly rites held in ancient times at which horses were offered to the water-god, and which in course of time came to be regarded by the agricultural population simply as a means of safeguarding their horses from evil throughout the year, the origin of the practice becoming completely forgotten. The custom, however, of offering the heads of oxen and horses to the water-god to pray for rain was long preserved.”

. Medochi　メドチ，　めどち Medochi Kappa variations .

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- Legends -

. - Kappa no kizugusuri カッパのきず薬 / 河童の傷薬
Kappa makes an ointment for wounds - .

. . . One day Morikiyo was crossing a river on horseback, when his horse suddenly stopped.
When he looked down he saw a long yellowish arm reaching out of the water and grab one leg of his horse. When the creature did not let go after he shouted at it, he took his sword and cut the arm off. . . .


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koke　苔 moss

If horses eat a bit from the moss growing on the grave of Lord Ozumi 大積隆鎮 of Fukushima, a Kappa will not be able to pull them into water.
. Kappa legends from Fukushima .


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