One of these "monsters" was the Bakeneko:
[text on note] Bakeneko: Monstrous cats that can talk, stand on two legs, and bewitch humans, and who like to lick fish oil and dance with napkins on their heads... in other words, cats.
Japan seriously had a fear of cats at one point in their history. They developed not one, but two separate cat monsters that really just boiled down to "we are disturbed by the things cats do naturally, so they must be scary."
One of these "monsters" was the Bakeneko: [text on note] Bakeneko: Monstrous cats that can talk, stand on two legs, and bewitch humans, and who like to lick fish oil and dance with napkins on their heads... in other words, cats.
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