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Kamaitachi (鎌鼬) is a Japanese yōkai often told about in the Kōshin'etsu region, or can also refer to the strange events that this creature causes.

They appear riding on dust devils, and they cut people using the nails on their both hands that are like sickles. One would receive a sharp wound from it, but there is no pain.

They are seen to be the same as the kyūki (窮奇) of China, and kamaitachi are also sometimes written as 窮奇.

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