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A striking artwork featuring a graceful demon with colorful tattoos, set against a serene landscape of a waterfall and mountains, merging beauty with a horror vibe.
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The Jorōgumo, a creature which can shapeshift from a beautiful woman into a deadly spider has a fascinating history that spans many legends and folklore stories. Some are even specific to a location and geography of Japan.
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The Jōren Falls of Izu
At the Jōren Falls of Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, lived the jorōgumo, mistress of the waterfall. The local legend tells of a man who rested beside the waterfall basin, when the jorōgumo tried to drag him into the waterfall by throwing webs around his leg. The man transferred the webbing around a tree stump, which was dragged into the falls instead of him.
In another version, a woodcutter fell in love with a woman he met at the waterfall. He visited her every day, but grew physically weaker each time. The oshō of a nearby temple suspected that the woodcutter was "bewitched by the jorōgumo mistress of the waterfall", and accompanied him to chant a sutra.
When a spider thread reached out to the woodcutter, the oshō let out a thunderous yell, and the thread disappeared. Even the knowledge that the woman was actually a jorōgumo couldn't hold the the woodcutter back. He still persisted and tried to gain permission for marriage from the mountain's tengu. When the tengu denied him his impossible request, the woodcutter ran towards the waterfall, where he was entangled by spider threads and disappeared forever into the water.
Source: Wikipedia.
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