This literally happened to me as a kid. To this day I no longer have a belly button
In Japanese folklore, the 'Raiju' creature will eat your belly button while you are asleep, especially during a thunderstorm. For that reason, people should be careful to keep their navels well covered during bad weather, and to sleep on their stomachs if possiblepic.twitter.com/vPIfFiFLlT
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My dad told me they kept spare belly buttons at the Naval Reserve.
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Well, I never heard abt it looking like a crab (usually more of a dog/tiger/beast?), but the saying "Hide your belly away from the thunderstorm!" is like common joke in my fam
Just didn't know it had something to do with the raijû pic.twitter.com/lnxWvBGEPs
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Sis, this is so cool! You can use it in later projects then
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Ahh well let's see. This is like barely the surface of our homegrown folklore
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Co-sign on the tiger shape, lil sis. When they have your belly button, you'll lose balance (much like what people w/o or w/ lack of hearing have)
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Duly noted
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@ColetteWillis1 I bent over double reading this.. -
SEE !!! I told you there was something about the Belly Button! AND Thunderstorms for that matter ! Tis no wonder I have always kept my belly button hidden away and safe from harm :D
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Folklore is so damn weird. From demons that lick ceilings, to giants with only one foot, depressed lumps of warts with eyes, and now this. And there's so much more.
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They probably just used this as an explanation to why some people have an inwards belly button or something like this lmao. Whatever people don't understand, they try to somehow explain to themselves, even if its nonsense. Like Religion
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mine could use a trim, if I'm being honest
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Ok.... I can buy that it’s a hairy crab thing.. I can buy that it’s a Raiju... I can buy that it eats your belly button while you’re asleep... but “especially during a thunderstorm”?! What in the actual *%#&! Like that wasn’t weird enough. Like that needed ONE more factor...
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Perhaps it's a nervous eater
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Raiju translates to thunder beast. The little dude gets scared of thunder storms and sleeps in people's belly buttons.
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That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing :)
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@FrostReyna@FrostJoAnn please use this for your frost facts that goes on scoreboard -
Maybe start your own thread of frost folklore and let
@FrostReyna stick to the facts
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