"Tsukumogami (付喪神?, "artifact spirit") are a type of Japanese spirit. According to the Tsukumogami-emaki, tsukumogami originate from items or artifacts that have reached their 100th birthday and thus become alive and aware."
My favorite Henson show from when I was little. Probably worth checking out again.
"This article is about rats with tails grown together. For the fictional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character, see Rat King."
I actually have heard of the "gyascutus" which "has legs of unequal length so that it can walk easily on hillsides" though I think it might go by other names.
Seems to jibe with Barthes' ideas about the establishment of myth-structure in the modern era - that repetition on a mass scale perpetuates belief until that belief is instantiated unconsciously and no longer even recognized as such.
