Futakuchi-onna

Futakuchi-onna's History

In a small village there lived a stingy miser who, because he could not bear the expense of paying for food for a wife, lived entirely by himself. One day he met a woman who was full of beauty; with every villager admiring her looks. Although she did not eat anything, the miser immediately took the woman as his wife. Because she never ate a thing, and was still a hard worker, the old miser was extraordinarily thrilled with her, but on the other hand he began to wonder why his storage of rice was steadily decreasing. One day the man pretended to leave for work, but instead stayed behind to spy on his new wife. To his horror, he saw his wife's hair part on the back of her head, her skull split wide open revealing a gaping mouth. She unbound her hair, which reached out like tentacles to grab the rice and shove it into the hungry mouth. He immediately ran away of fear, after a moment of horror about his wife having a mouth in the back of her head.