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 Amabie (アマビエ) is a legendary Japanese mermaid or merman with 3 legs, who allegedly emerges from the sea and prophesies either an abundant harvest or an epidemic. 

 An amabie appeared in Higo Province (Kumamoto Prefecture) according to legend, around the middle of the fourth month, in the year Kōka-3 (mid-May, 1846) in the Edo era.  A glowing object had been spotted in the sea, almost on a nightly  basis.

The town's official went to the coast to investigate, and  witnessed the amabie. According to the sketch made by this  official, it had long hair, a mouth like bird's bill, was covered in  scales from the neck down, and three-legged. Addressing the official, it  identified itself as an amabie and told him that it lived in the  open sea. It went on to deliver a prophecy: "Good harvest will continue  for six years from the current year;  if disease spreads, show a picture of me to those who fall ill and they  will be cured." Afterward, it returned to the sea. The story was  printed in the kawaraban (woodblock-printed bulletins), where its portrait was printed, and this is how the story disseminated in Japan.

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