Samebito

Also called Shark-Person, Shark-Man.

Samebito is the shark-man of a Japanese tale, black-skinned and green-eyed, exiled from the dragon king's undersea palace, whose tears of gratitude harden into jewels.

Tradition: Japanese folklore
Region: Japan (place of origin)
Symbols: Shark

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Squonk Dissolves into tears when captured

Symbols

Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.

Shark is Shark denotes danger, evil, and death at sea; Maya material instead treats it as a familiar sea-and-river animal named xoc.
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Samebito is the shark-man of a Japanese tale, black-skinned and green-eyed, exiled from the dragon king's undersea palace, whose tears of gratitude harden into jewels.

Traits

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Form

Healing tears or fluids
why
Samebito, distressed at his friend's grief, weeps, and the tears that fall from his green eyes harden into rubies as they touch the ground, in such number that the difficulty is solved.
Hybrid of multiple animals
why
a shape between man and shark

Behaviour

Dissolves into tears when captured
why
Samebito, distressed at his friend's grief, weeps, and the tears that fall from his green eyes harden into rubies as they touch the ground, in such number that the difficulty is solved.

Roles

Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.