Kaeru nyōbō (蛙女房) — "frog wive", a shapeshifting character in Japanese folklore. The frog turns into a woman in order to marry a human man, but retains some of her froggy qualities — Kaeru nyōbō is very fragile, small, and is unable to do heavy work due to her little strength.
The life with her can be perfectly ordinary and peaceful, unless the curiosity of a husband & family discovers her true nature, and she hops away.
The stories about frog wives exist all over Japan with some variations of the plot. The motive itself — of a girl "with a secret" and a family ruined by prying into it — seems to be extremely popular in Japanese folklore in general.
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Found your account from one of my mutuals reblogging that one mini frog post, could I learn about some fucked up frogs :D
Everybody is always banging on about Pipa pipa. Nobody is ever talking about how fucked up Hemiphractidae reproduction is
Like, they range from concealed carry, like this Gastrotheca orophylax
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which they achieve with a pouch that has a weird ass opening (lack of hyphenation intentional) (not actually anywhere near the cloaca of the frog) (this has earned them the common name 'marsupial frogs' for a very obvious reason)
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…to open carry, like this Fritziana goeldii
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which hatch out but remain glued on until developing sufficiently, like this Cryptobatrachus boulengeri
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Pretty fucked up, if you ask me.
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WORLD FROG DAY ON A WEDNESDAY. THE PROPHECY HAS COME TRUE
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BRO IS COOKING !!!!! 🐸🐸🐸
really like him, I'm a BIG fan of toads and frogs
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I've been doing some Sculptober 2023 prompts and here's one of them, croak, for day 8. have a budgett's frog
turntable
bonus
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He has the shape and the volume
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✨Phrogs✨
which i made somewhat 2 years ago, but anyway
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I was replaying Postal Brain Damaged today and I found him.
I found the lad.
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