Japanese whirlwind demon. I could not find the name of the artist but I am guessing that the red kanji is a signature. These invisible demons employ their sickle claws to do their thing. Pretty malevolent, if you ask me. If anybody has invisible flying bloodthirsty slasher weasels it would be the Japanese. This vicious fellow is by Xatchett off DeviantArt. https://www.deviantart.com/xatchett These yokai ride dustdevils and whirlwinds and slash up the unwary, while drawing no blood. In the 1890's there was a rash of these attacks. Some anime. https://youtu.be/sxC-g5sCWXk The whirlwind thing seems to be a big part of all this. Kamaitachi, by Eikoh Hosea, 1969. And another. This is the photographer who took the dynamic black and white pictures of Yukio Mishima I had posted in an earlier essay. The model in this series, Kamaitachi, is a famous avant-garde dancer, Tatsumi H
Might be a Cane Toad. I'm okay with that, then.
ReplyDeleteYour hog-on-a-pike puts me in mind of Lord of the Flies. Or maybe Animal Farm. We've discussed my neighbors -- I don't think a piggy skull is going to make them take a second look.
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DeleteIf I end up shooting one of the feral hogs out there, and I will, then it's the full head treatment.
I hope you have something that is either large caliber or high powered. Those things are tough to kill. And that idea sounds like the roots of a horror flick to me.
DeleteI will be using a .30-06 when the time comes. Hopefully the fencing will keep them out.
DeleteAnd the place is perfect for a low budget horror flick.
Jeremy Bentham was the name of the first person I ever heard in connection with the term auto-con. No, I won't be leaving a link for that one.
ReplyDeleteSame here. I don't think that is the best idea now that we have photography and such.
ReplyDeleteMy mom gave me one of these, but it was just a stuffed frog, no musical instrument. I keep thinking I should bury it, but the minute I do is when she will ask about it...
ReplyDelete"Andrew, whatever happened to that nice froggy I gave you?"
DeleteAnd she will become so concerned when you tell her that someone broke into your home and stole just that...
Ha ha! Devil worshippers without a doubt. I sold my frogs last garage sale to a prosperous Mexican family up here on vacation. The mother was not pleased, but the kids loved them. They have gone home!
DeleteSo...I have a whole band of these guys...my husband brought them home from a garage sale that his friend was holding to raise money to get his dog the surgery it needed. They lived on the workbench in the basement. But the work bench is next to the treadmill. When I first encountered these horrors, I was reading Duma Key by Stephen King. The frog jug band was behind me as I exercised and I could feel their beady glass eyes boring into my back. I had to lock the little bastards into a closet and put a chair up against the door.
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha! I find them very freaky, glad to get rid of them. I should have burned them but I wanted the 4 dollars. Poor things.
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