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"Leechwife" by Jamie Worthington

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Item censored due to its Parental Rating level (#2 of 4), as set by the artist...

SciFi and Fantasy Art Leechwife by Jamie Worthington

Just to clear up any confusion about the title, the term -wife is, according to dictionary.com:

A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.

And, yes, this was inspired by a Rasputina song of the same name. My imagination took hold of it and ran.

I know, she doesn't have jaws like a leech; my resources concerning such things are a bit lacking. So i gave her a modified lamprey mouth, which IMO looks sorta menacing....

This was drawn while I was watching Zombie 5: Killing Birds and Zombie 4: After Death, neither of which is high on my list of recommended movies.

Well, live and learn, right?

Date	Name	Comment
29 May 2006	Kristin A. Erickson	Loading... This is scary, but nicely done. Keep it up!
8 Jul 2006	Jamie L. Billings	Loading... wow. um. Yeah. Fear of hospitals and nurses will never be called "irrational" again
25 Jan 2007	K. ´Karahatay´ Fink	Loading... Hehehe. This is great. Excellent job!
7 Mar 2007	Wilma van Strijp	Loading... Ok...disturbing... I like it..specialy cause theres something there beside her in the dark..which you cant quit make out...who knows what shes planning on doing...yikes! And btw...leeches today are still used in medicine to get severed fingers etc to grow back on (it makes the blood run better trough the finger and thus stimulates growth ) And so we end our medical class for today..
25 Apr 2007	Rebecca Hobbrechaun Dias	Loading... Hello, Nurse! lol just kidding! uuummm........... creeeeeeeppyyy lol it's a good, unique idea. love the lighting you did! Congrats on ModsChoice! ~Rebekah Day~
4 Jul 2007	Anastasija	Loading... Now I know why I am always so afraid of medical workers . This one is really scary - good that I did not view it in the evening, I would not go to sleep after that. But she is very impressive.
7 Jan 2008	Shadowfriend	Loading... Eeep! That one is a freaky... umm... thing. And coming from me, that is praise. I don't freak or scare with any great ease, and this made me somewhat uncomfortable for a few momens. Well done I say.
3 Aug 2008	Danica Beverley Wells	Loading... It’s really nice! And I really like how you made her a nurse - it’s almost somewhat ironic: since well, as you know in medieval times the "docters" thought that diseases were in the blood, and so they bled you to try and get the disease out. Then, I don’t know exactly how much later, people started putting leeches on their patients and the sick to drain out the "bad blood". Still today, I think they’ll occasionally empty a pot of leeches on people... This is a well done piece... although I HATE leeches (they are soooo gross!) and things that don’t have eyes, but just a mouth (or a round mouth with lots of teeth...
13 Nov 2008	Lydia stephanie Barker	Loading... LOL......this is great
27 Jul 2011	Jeanette M Thomas	Loading... Wasn’t a doctor or medical pratitioner also referred to as a leech? In that sense, couldn’r "Leechwife" mean healing woman????? Jamie Worthington replies: "They were indeed called leeches, due to the practice of bloodletting either through cuts or with leeches. In this case, the song I referenced in the description specifies leeches: "One leech is all it takes It sucks the blood ’til it’s fat It’s found in ponds and lakes..." Thanks for the comment!"
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