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SciFi & Fantasy Art / Gallery 710 of 882 / Dovile Kosmaraite Tarutyte / Picture 5 of 33 / Bake Neko

"Bake Neko" by Dovile Kosmaraite Tarutyte

SF&F Picture 5 out of 33 by Dovile Kosmaraite Tarutyte

SciFi and Fantasy Art Bake Neko by Dovile Kosmaraite Tarutyte

A bakeneko (化け猫? 'monster cat') is, in Japanese folklore, a cat with supernatural abilities akin to those of the fox or raccoon dog. A cat may become a bakeneko in a number of ways: it may reach a certain age, be kept for a certain number of years, grow to a certain size, or be allowed to keep a long tail. In the last case, the tail forks in two and the bakeneko is then called a nekomata (猫又? ,猫叉, or 猫股 'forked cat'). This superstition may have some connection to the breeding of the Japanese Bobtail. A bakeneko will haunt any household it is kept in, creating ghostly fireballs, menacing sleepers, walking on its hind legs, changing its shape into that of a human, and even devouring its own mistress in order to shapeshift and take her place. When it is finally killed, its body may be as much as five feet in length. It also poses a danger if allowed into a room with a fresh corpse; a cat is believed to be capable of reanimating a body by jumping over it. [WIKIPEDIA] I think this is more like european version of that demon cat. Watercolour pencils.

Date	Name	Comment
10 Aug 2008	Bill Simmons	Loading... I love this, good work, Nice use of shading, lighting varied use of Textures, good color, overall great thought piece. Bravo
10 Aug 2008	Sherri L. White	Loading... Ahhhhaaahhh...that’s their little secret ! Neat pic !!!
11 Aug 2008	Rachael A. Kenny	Loading... wow this is a really brilliant pic. I absolutely love the colours, the cat creature and especially the little hanging skulls lol