Oh, I haven't try eating them during winter. We normally love warmer food for those times.
The jorogumo are a type of shape-shifting youkai, most well known for being spider women. Oh, but don't mistake them for tsuchigumo, who are purely spiders. Most stories usually involve the jorogumo tricking and luring their victims with their human forms.
The tale I'll tell you was centred around the Joren Falls of Izu, one of Japan's many, beautiful waterfalls. According to the local legend, a man was resting beside the water basin until the jorogumo tried to pull him into the water with her webs around his legs. Fortunately, he escaped by moving those webbings onto a tree stump. That got pulled in his place.
Afterwards, the nearby village all avoid the waterfall out of fear. But that's among the locals, for outsiders wouldn't know if they happen to come along. One such visiting woodcutter, for example.
While he cut down trees, he dropped his favourite axe in the water by mistake. When he went to retrieve it, a beautiful woman appeared and got it for him. She told him one simple request: "You must never tell anyone what you saw here."
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The jorogumo are a type of shape-shifting youkai, most well known for being spider women. Oh, but don't mistake them for tsuchigumo, who are purely spiders. Most stories usually involve the jorogumo tricking and luring their victims with their human forms.
The tale I'll tell you was centred around the Joren Falls of Izu, one of Japan's many, beautiful waterfalls. According to the local legend, a man was resting beside the water basin until the jorogumo tried to pull him into the water with her webs around his legs. Fortunately, he escaped by moving those webbings onto a tree stump. That got pulled in his place.
Afterwards, the nearby village all avoid the waterfall out of fear. But that's among the locals, for outsiders wouldn't know if they happen to come along. One such visiting woodcutter, for example.
While he cut down trees, he dropped his favourite axe in the water by mistake. When he went to retrieve it, a beautiful woman appeared and got it for him. She told him one simple request: "You must never tell anyone what you saw here."
Can you guess what happen next?