in the marvel universe if you're bitten by a spider
you become spider-man with some pretty cool supernatural abilities
but in japanese mythology spiders don't just bite humans instead they prefer to eat them whole
no god
yep we are talking about jurokumo a type of evil yokai creature that first appeared
in literature of the ido period gerogumo is an extremely beautiful woman but at the same time
is a deadly evil creature the japanese word gerogumo means attempting or seducing woman
it can also be more formally described as a binding bride or entangling bride
when this giant spider feels hungry she walks the streets and uses her shape-shifting ability
to transform herself into a beautiful woman often a noble or royal lady she then politely invites
handsome men to her house for tea or dinner once there she will play a musical instrument
like a shamason which is usually played by courtesans girogumo mostly attracts young men and
she has years of experience in manipulating human emotions and making them her prey when attempted
man enters her lair she immediately takes them in her clutches and injects them with a slow but
very painful poison the victim will feel pain for several days or weeks before they eventually die
during this period of suffering and agony gerogumo will occasionally take a bite of
the victim's flesh she prefers to consume her prey piece by piece
interestingly girogu monks were considered to be half woman and half spider
and were often accompanied by hundreds of spider children
it's huge look at the size of that thing it's absolutely gigantic
according to legends it's believed after a few centuries a certain species of spider known as
the golden orb weaver spider eventually transformed itself into a gerogumo yokai
girogumos usually live alone in places like forests caves and dark abandoned places in japan
first appeared in a written story from the 17th century according to that story
a young handsome samurai took shelter in an abandoned place with a lot of spider webs
a woman appeared with a child during the night and claimed that the child belongs to him
the samurai was a smart man and he was suspicious of this lady who was traveling at night in an
unexpected place the samurai slashed the woman with his blade but she was able to escape
but the next morning the samurai found a room where a giant spider was dying
due to a deep cut from a sword exactly like the one he gave the young woman
the baby was there too the room was filled with the corpses of previous victims wrapped
in webs the samurai was incredibly fortunate to have survived the horror of the gerogumo
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