Resultados para "Kappen!" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Un hombre encerrado en un hospital psiquiátrico cuenta a quien quiera oírlo la historia de los Kappas, unas criaturas mitad humanas y mitad anfibias a cuyo mundo, espejo deformante del de la superficie, llegó tras caer por un agujero mientras recorría el monte Hokada. Este relato y los que lo acompañan presentan un mosaico de fábulas alegóricas cercanas al realismo mágico sobre el Japón contemporáneo.

The Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval-shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age. Akutagawa’s Kappa is narrated by Patient No. 23, a madman in a lunatic asylum: he recounts how, while out hiking in Kamikochi, he spots a Kappa.

June discovers she was born into a family of psychics and her homeopathic cures truly are magical. Unfortunately, they are not magical enough to save her from being the number-one murder suspect when a member of the community that she had just had a disagreement with shows up facedown in the lake with June’s lucky charm in the victim’s grasp. Add to that an attraction to her high school best friend, Sheriff Oscar Park and that Mr. Prince Charming, her cat, is stealing charms from Belle’s Baubles, and June is forced to clear her name in more ways than murder.

June Heal and Oscar Park are still in the honeymoon stages of their marriage. Things couldn’t be better. The Holiday Bazaar is about to descend upon the magical village of Whispering Falls and the town is abuzz with the excitement of a spiritual carnival coming to town. After the head of the spiritual carnival is found dead with one of June’s potions in his clutches, The Elders place June on village arrest until they can clear her name from murder. With the help of her familiars and one particular ghost, June uses her sleuthing skills and a little magic to try to clear her name.

Arabella Paxton has her eyes on Oscar Park. Not even the dark cloud looming over Whispering Falls is going to stop her from what she wants. June Heal is on a mission to find out why things are dying in Whispering Falls, including her relationship with Oscar Park. There is a perfect storm brewing, and a beloved Whispering Falls resident has been poisoned from a potion bought at A Charming Cure. June Heal has to use all her sleuthing skills and a little bit of magic to not only clear her name but help Oscar remember that she is the love of his life.

Psychic June Heal's homeopathic cure shop, A Charming Cure, is the most popular shop in the unusual little town of Whispering Falls, Kentucky. June is about to learn she has more than psychic abilities when she attends Hidden Hall, a spiritualist university with magic lurking around every corner. Unfortunately, the Ultimate Spell gets into the wrong hands. But it is only discovered after a few spiritualist go missing or end up poisoned to death. Will June figure out who has the Ultimate Spell and stop them before they destroy the entire spiritualist community?