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Meet Japan’s mythical beast who appears in bolts of lightning

Published by The Guardian Environment · United Kingdom 7 h ago

Raijū is normally docile but gets agitated in storms and leaps up to run among the clouds, according to folkloreThe Japanese raijū (thunder beast) is said to fall to Earth in a…

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