31 Monsters!
Oct. 5th, 2010 08:48 pmYama-uba (mountain crone) is a yōkai ("spirit" or "monster") found in Japanese folklore. The name may also be spelled Yamamba or Yamanba. She is sometimes confused with the Yuki-onna ("snow woman"), but the two figures are not the same.
Yama-uba looks like an old woman, usually a hideous one. Her unkempt hair is long and golden white, and her kimono (usually red) is filthy and tattered. Her mouth is sometimes said to stretch the entire width of her face, and some depictions give her a second mouth at the top of her head. She is able to change her appearance, though, and she uses this tactic to great success in capturing her victims.
I have to tell you, I love crones. Crones rock. Crones that eat people with their second mouth rock even harder. Of course she uses this tactic to great success. I would expect nothing less.
In addition to killing adults, Yama-uba is often blamed for missing children, and parents use her as a sort of bogeyman.
Well, duh. Om nom nom. Children are delicious.
(Did you really think this countdown was going to not favor the monsters sometimes?)
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Yama-uba looks like an old woman, usually a hideous one. Her unkempt hair is long and golden white, and her kimono (usually red) is filthy and tattered. Her mouth is sometimes said to stretch the entire width of her face, and some depictions give her a second mouth at the top of her head. She is able to change her appearance, though, and she uses this tactic to great success in capturing her victims.
I have to tell you, I love crones. Crones rock. Crones that eat people with their second mouth rock even harder. Of course she uses this tactic to great success. I would expect nothing less.
In addition to killing adults, Yama-uba is often blamed for missing children, and parents use her as a sort of bogeyman.
Well, duh. Om nom nom. Children are delicious.
(Did you really think this countdown was going to not favor the monsters sometimes?)
I'm doing a combo post with a meme I owe. If anyone hasn't received a color or wants to know which color I associate with them, let me know!
Comment and I'll give you a color that I think represents you, and then you list ten things you like in that color!
agonistes gave me "black... like my soul!".( Ten things )