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A dream-eating chimera that snacks on your nightmares like a midnight delivery order.
means In Japanese folklore, the baku is a supernatural creature that devours bad dreams and nightmares, often invoked to protect sleepers from ill omens.
from From Japanese 獏 (baku), a name that also denotes the tapir — the dream-eater is traditionally pictured as a chimera, with an elephant's trunk, a tiger's paws, an ox's tail and more. The folklore likely traveled from China, where similar dream-devouring beasts appear, into Japan, where children were taught to call on the baku after a nightmare to have the bad dream eaten away.
- diet
- Devours bad dreams, no other menu items
- anatomy
- Elephant trunk, tiger paws, ox tail, all stitched together
- summon spell
- Whisper it three times after a nightmare
- shared name
- Also Azerbaijan's windswept capital city
- warning
- Overfed baku may eat hopes and ambitions too
baku city — capital of azerbaijan, located on the caspian sea coast with 3.1 million people
baku olympic stadium — built in 2015 for first european games, hosted 6,000 athletes