Appearance

Kankandara upper half is that of a woman with six arms, with unknown lower half. Since anyone who sees the lower half, no-one known what it looks like. However, many of the fans think it is that of the rather huge snake, since in the story, the shrine maiden was devoured by a massive snake, which she fought with, as maid.

Personality

The human half of Kankandara was originally a selfless and heroic woman who was determined to protect a village from a terrifying serpent. She also proved to be strong willed, continuing to try and fight even after loosing half her body to the beast.

The snake half of Kankandara was a ruthless predator that killed and ate humans without remorse. Although, it was intelligent and honorable enough to make a deal where it would leave the rest of the village alone if it was allowed to eat the rest of the shrine maiden.

As the Kankandara, she had a mixture of both entities personality traits. She was fueled by vengeful rage for her human self being betrayed by those she was determined to protect and ruthlessly slaughtered the whole village and her family in retribution (while taking six arms for herself to replace the ones they cut off). Afterwards, she became a sadistic, cunning, ambush predator-like being, who stalks those who comes to her area of the forest. If one dares to break the shape of sticks inside a box, she will usually show hers full form. This means that the watcher('s) usually dies, sooner or later. However, sometimes she only plays with her victims, like cat with mouse, and can even allow them to live with some side effects.

Biography

Origin

Originally, Kankandara was two different beings, those being the rather massive snake and the shrine maiden. Certain villages were terrorized by the snake, which caused villagers to go certain maiden's family, asking and begin for help to solve this problem. This specific family was full of generations of power gifted from the gods. In response, the shrine maiden's family agreed to help them and picked one shrine maiden, who was surprisingly strong. She set out to subdue the snake, while the villagers were watching. Despite risking her life to face the snake, in the blink of an eye, the snake attacked and devoured half of shrine maidens body. But, even this didn't stop maiden to continue the fight for the villagers, using all she had in her might.

Now missing lower body, villagers feared that shrine maiden had no change of defeating the snake from them. So, they decided to offer the maid to the snake in exchange for the safety of their village. Snake agreed with their terms, even though it found the maid was mostly unpleasant. To make it easier to devour, the villagers cut off maiden's arms, leaving her to look like a daruma doll with no limbs. After that, the snake ate her.

For a while, the villagers were living in peace. However, it wasn't until later the plan of plan the shrine maiden’s family came up with was brought to light. At the time, there were six people in her family. A disaster soon befell the village and its people as people started to die one after other, despite snake not showing itself after devouring the shrine maiden. In the village, in the mountains, in the forest, the dead bodies were all found, missing both their legs and arms. As only four people remained, after 18 people died (including the six from the shrine maiden’s family). In order to prevent more deaths, the remained people started to created a box, where inside it has a shape of sticks.

In the story, three boys decided to go to the mountain forest, since one of them had a family problem. Boy's father said then if he is so brave, would he dare to go there, where the boy would meet a surprise. While walking the rode, they start to hear sound of bells, which soon stopped. After going from the fence, they find ashimenawa (roped used to ward against evil), which they passed through and entered the hexagon it made.

There, boys found a box, with inside it a sticks in certain shape. One of the boys touched the box and suddenly felt the changes from t. After boys went outside, they saw a upper half of a woman with six arms, three in each side. Boys were scared by this and ran away. They soon meet with adults, who were worrying about them. Unfortunately, not long after the boys went to their own homes, one of the boys became sick-like, causing their parents to call his friends and parents to go meet a priest.

At first, when two boys told about what they did, priest thought that he could't do anything, while his niece told about the monster woman they saw. But when she told about anyone who ever sees the lower half of the creature. But when they told that they didn't see it, the priest stood up and said they could do something. The story ends with all boys surviving with scare, as the fences were taking to other place, alongside the Kankandara.