Futakuchi-onna
二口女(ふたくちおんな)
The 1841 Ehon Hyaku Monogatari made Futakuchi-onna a stepmother punished with a mouth at the back of her head. Folktales of the wife who eats nothing, recorded in the twentieth century, give the same hidden mouth to brides who turn out to be snakes, spiders, and oni.
- 1977
Kanagawa
Folklore record
Spider bride; neighbours called to rescue the husband



