Originally Posted by Harmon

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The story behind this is that the 'raccoon' is a Tanuki. A mythological shapeshifting raccoon-dog animal that is considered lucky by the Japanese. In myth, the tanuki always has very large testicles, and is considered a good luck charm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki