Tengu, in Japanese mythology, long-nosed half-men, half-birds, endowed with enormous strength, who lived in old trees with twisted trunks and loved to scare travelers and lumberjacks with thunderous laughter. Most often, their jokes were quite harmless, and sometimes the tengu turned out to be useful and saved people. For example, these creatures saved the fisherman Tometo from death in the belly of a giant fish. These creatures, dressed in fur and down, resembled the Slavic goblin in their character and behavior.
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