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Futakuchi-onnaby *NyanRuki

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A futakuchi-onna (二口女, lit. "two-mouthed woman") is a type of yōkai or Japanese monster. They are characterized by their two mouths – a normal one located on her face and second one on the back of the head beneath the hair. There, the woman's skull splits apart, forming lips, teeth and a tongue, creating an entirely functional second mouth.
Though there are several stories linking the appearance of a futakuchi-onna's second mouth to different causes, it is most often linked to how little a woman eats. The soon-to-be futakuchi-onna is usually a wife of a miser and rarely eats. To counteract this, a second mouth mysteriously appears on the back of the woman's head. The second mouth often mumbles spiteful and threatening things to the woman and demands food. If it is not fed, it can screech obscenely and cause the woman tremendous pain. Eventually, the woman's hair begins to move like a pair of serpents, allowing the mouth to help itself to the woman's meals.
In Japanese mythology and folklore, the futakuchi-onna belongs to the same class of stories as the rokurokubi, kuchisake-onna and the yama-uba, women afflicted with a curse or supernatural disease that transforms them into yōkai. The supernatural nature of the women in these stories is usually concealed until the last minute, when the true self is revealed.

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~IndyGoNagaretton Feb 21, 2012

Um, why this is in Mysterious Ghost World-group? We only accept art related to Kiki Kaikai/Pocky & Rocky-series

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*NyanRuki Mar 4, 2012 Student Digital Artist

ok ><

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Commissions open!!!
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i do anything ~~

Touhou preference

*NyanRuki Mar 4, 2012 Student Digital Artist

AHHHHHHHH ;_; sorry!

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Commissions open!!!
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i do anything ~~

Touhou preference

*Manu-G Feb 17, 2012 Digital Artist

Has intentado hacer una mezcla entre arte tradicional japones y estilo manga???

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*NyanRuki Feb 20, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Algo así supongo, no pienso en esas cosas siemplemente hago lo que imagino xDD

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