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Published: 2013-08-27 07:34:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 5511; Favourites: 77; Downloads: 77
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Surfing in the South Pacific on a bright sunny day, not a mummy or Cosmonaut Ghost in sight, and yet... and yet.Miyuki has a brush with some FunayΕ«rei - the vengeful undersea undead. In my original plan for this she was going to be scuba diving, so the encounter would have been an underwater knife fight. I kinda think this is creepier, though.
There are other versions of this picture! I'll post them tomorrow. And by that I mean later today. When I get home from work Tuesday.
Ink drawing colored in photoshop, and some stock textures from the internet (don't remember where).
Haunted Summer so far:
Bikini and nudie versions:
Enjoy,
-D
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You should consider doing the scuba version as well!
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Oh yeah I've seen this, this is where the Swam Thing vs the Sweet Thang.
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There's a disturbance in the water. Like a thousand undead creatures attacking someone then quickly being silenced.
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You do have to feel for them, plotting their revenge for more than half a century, and then picking a ninja as a potential victim.
According to the legend/superstition, the FunayΕ«rei will swim up to a boat from below, climb up the side, and ask for a ladle (or bucket) which they then use to bale water into the boat until it sinks. The trick is to give them a ladle with no bottom so they can't bale (Buddhist charms will also drive them away. At no point does anyone suggest not giving them a ladle, however.) I think these guys have other plans, however...
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That legend is hilarious! So an undead creature climbs up your boat, asks for a laddle, and then just keeps putting water in your boat. No one thinks to just hit him with the laddle? Or maybe kick him off the boat. Nevertheless it's funny either way.
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A lot of legends (from all cultures) have people reacting rather passively to supernatural creatures who are out to get them - I guess the reasoning is that they probably can't be harmed by conventional means so there's no point in trying, you always have to outwit them. If you've ever read Kwaidan (or any collection of Japanese folk tales) a lot of the stories don't really have a moral or even lead to a conclusion, they're just presented as "here's a totally WTF thing that happened."
Presumably ladling ghosts were more of a threat when the Japanese were using smaller coastal boats that could swamp easily under adverse conditions; the FunayΕ«rei could also wreck a ship through more practical means, like guiding it onto a reef - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funay%C5β¦ I do like the idea of a ghost clinging to the side of a giant container ship, ladling for all he's worth and occasionally glancing back to see if the crew's terrified of him yet, while they try to ignore him because all he's done is create a puddle on the deck, but they feel it would be impolite to say anything.
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I've never really read any other mythology than Greek, so I didn't know that. I should put more time into Japanese folk lore.
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At the signpost up ahead, The Twilight Zone.
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It's marked as Imperial Japanese Submarine I-26, although the I-26 had a different looking conning tower. I drew it first, based on a different sub, and added the number later (26 because it was August 26th when I was working on it).
The I-26 was sunk in Leyte Gulf in 1944, probably in water much deeper than this.
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Okay then.
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