mintuci
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The mintuci (Ainu ミントゥチ; also mintuci kamuy, also transliterated into Japanese as ) is a water sprite or an aquatic supernatural creature, a half-man-half-beast, told in stories of Ainu mythology and folklore. It is also considered a variant of the kappa and, therefore, a type of yōkai.
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The mintuci (Ainu ミントゥチ; also mintuci kamuy, also transliterated into Japanese as ) is a water sprite or an aquatic supernatural creature, a half-man-half-beast, told in stories of Ainu mythology and folklore. It is also considered a variant of the kappa and, therefore, a type of yōkai.
== Nomenclature == The name is mintuci (Ainu: ミントゥチ) according to modern Ainu orthography, but it is also commonly spelled in folkloric study literature written in Japanese.