Mukade ç¾è¶³
The centipede. Japan has a real one â the Åmukade is large, fast, armoured and venomous enough to be a medical problem, and it lives under stones and in roof cavities and comes indoors. That is what separates it from most of the company it keeps in the English catalogues: a fox-spirit is an idea about a fox, and a mukade is a specific animal that was already in the house. In the old telling it is not a bug grown large but the owner of a mountain, and the remedy recorded against it is not a weapon but a direction â a sign drawn three times in the air toward the side it came from.
Note
- The Mukade Was an Enemy the Size of a Mountain A hundred legs, a real animal that will not stay killed, and in the old tale the resident power of a mountain. The mukade is not a small monster.
Volume
THERE IS NO COLUMN FOR IT
A domain forester keeps two books: one for the timber, one for what comes down the mountain at night. The second book exists because the first has no column for it.