Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — Queer Things the Japs Believe. [ARTICLE]

Queer Things the Japs Believe.

The Japanese believe in more mythical creatures than any other people on the globe, civilized or savage.' Among them are mythical animals without any remarkable peculiarities of conformation, but gifted with supernatural attributes; such as a tiger which is said to live to be 1,000 years old and to turn as white | as a polar bear.