Tsuchinoko (ツチノコ)


            Tsuchinoko (ツチノコ, Tsuchinoko?) is an animal that have been reported in Japan but have never been proven (cryptid). Shaped like a snake but paunchy like a bottle or a bowling pin with a small tail-like a mouse’s tail. This animal is reported to have "seen" an eyewitness at various places in Japan, except in Hokkaido and the Ryukyu Islands. Up to now,Tsuchinoko have never captured by people because eyewitness were afraid, or the animal escape first.
            
           The name "Tsuchinoko" comes from the local name for the "animal" is according to local residents Kansai (Kyoto, Mie, Nara, and Shikoku). In the Kanto area, residents to call as bachihebi. Some local governments in Japan offers reward in large numbers of money for who can caught
Tsuchinoko.
The reward of 100 million yen had Itoigawa city has to offer, Niigata prefecture.

Eyewitness who claimed have "seen" Tsuchinoko reported physical characteristics and behavior as follows:

1.Compared with ordinary snake, the abdomen a little bit fat.
2.Strong jumped up to about 1 meter.
3.Like to drink sake.
4. It might say "Chii".
5. Moving so quickly.
6.How to move like a caterpillar or rolled away, biting the tail and spinning like a wheel.
7.From the mouth can breath the fire.

History
1. Tools of stone shaped like a snake like a Tsuchinoko that is found from the site  archeology at Jomon Period in Hida, Gifu Prefecture. A similar picture Tsuchinoko also found on the outside of the urn-shaped pottery from the site archeology in Nagano Prefecture.
2.Tsuchinoko described as the god of pastures in the classical literature of Kojiki
written in the 8th century.
3.In the encyclopedia Wakan SanSai Zue from Edo period , Tsuchinoko written in article entitled Nozuchihebi ( , Nozuchihebi? snake hammer fields).

Plausible explanation
Most likely, the people just wrong to see it. Abdomen the snake had just swallowed
large prey will grow like the figure reported by the eyewitnesses. In addition, Tsuchinoko
like a genus Tiliqua lizard that goes to Japan as pets since about the 1970s. The lizards have legs that small and almost invisible, so that amidst lush can be mistaken for Tsuchinoko.





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