 One of the "amanojaku's" best known appearances is in the fairytale , in which a girl miraculously born from a melon is doted upon by an elderly couple.They shelter her from the outside world, and she naively lets the "amanojaku" inside one day, where it kidnaps or devours her, and sometimes impersonates her by wearing her flayed skin.The "amanojaku" is commonly held to be derived from , a wicked deity in Shintō mythology, which shares the "amanojakus" contrary nature and ability to see into a person's heart, "a very perverted demon".