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Ko Hittakuri

Japanese for "Child Snatcher"

A rare and mysterious wesen that can breathe underwater and rarely speaks. When woged, their skin grows green scales, their hands become webbed with sharp fingernails, and a strange plate grows on their head. They are obsessed with water, and almost never leave a rivers banks. Not much is known about them, other than the fact that they drown children. No one knows why they do it, as attacks are random, and the bodies are recovered uneatem. Ko Hittakuri attacks on children are rare, but these are one of the few instances that they have been seen. It is thought that they ambush children like crocodiles. Children who were lucky enough to escape these wesen, and witnesses who saw them attack, report seeing them change into a hideous monsters, suggesting that when they attack, they woge so that normal humans can see them as well, possibly to frighten the children so they don't resist, or to frighten onlookers so they do not attempt to save the children. Ko Hittakuri sightings are rare, but most of them come from Japan. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_(folklore)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_(folklore) for information regarding the inspiration)