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I just remembered a story

A prince fell in love with a mysterious woman and they wed and while they lived happily he was suddenly growing sicker and sicker.

Then a holy man or monk came to visit, he was a good friend of the guy and seeing his condition had a suspicion. So he said to the prince to have his servants prepare a dinner of fried rice, with one side having sweet rice and the other side salty.

-(side note I thought that sounded pretty delicious envisioning either sweet Chinese sausage or salted egg for the rices)-

Anyways he must only eat the portion with the sweet rice while his wife was left with the salty. Afterwards he was instructed to sleep in a tall tower with a locked door all through the night and pretend to sleep waiting for anything strange. That night his wife became very thirsty and trapped in the room without water and tormented by the thirst she transformed into a huge snake and crept down from the tower to drink from the lake below.

He reported this to his friend afterwards and he explained that his wife was in fact a Lamia.

He explained that when a snake has lived not been seen by human eyes in a Hundred Years in grows a crest and becomes a king of snakes, after a Thousand Years unseen by humans it will sprout legs and become a dragon, in Five Thousand years it will then become a terrible creature called the Lamia.

He guessed that this girl had been possessed by a Lamia before he came across her and the demon is now feeding off his life force.

He is instructed that fire is the only way to truly destroy a Lamia and so in sadness he had a great oven built and as he asked his wife for her cooking he pushed her in there and left the house to burn down.

The monk said that while he might have loved her, the person he loved was already long gone and this was the only way. He then gifted the prince a stone that can turn things to gold to rebuild his fortune, but in sadness he threw it into a river and then the waters turned gold, and that is the origin of the Ganges River.

Aside from the glaring hindsight that this story could have been a great misunderstanding and he just killed his wife out of fear and misguided supernatural advice.

The idea of a monster secretly being your love is a very cool one. Like a double reversal of Beauty and The Beast.

If i were to recreate my version I would do it like Ancient Magus Bride, where a kind of Celtic or Irish Succubus was haunting an old man's garden who saw a glimpse of her, she first didn't care because he was too old and an unattractive prey, but then she grew to care for him because he was sweet and missed his own wife the creature reminding him of her when they were young.

But I would like to play around with the fear of it because unlike that mythological creature the Lamia is a shapeshifter and so a more physical terror would be at play, so might as well go full monster form as she transforms. And if I were to design this power it's gotta be through shedding skin and make it grousome, maybe like FMA have her eat the remains afterwards.

And on the very one sided ending I was thinking maybe he should not have the heart to do the deed, but by some reason the house does burn and he decides to stay there with her.

And maybe an extra twist she is the one that gets him out at the expense of her life dispelling what the holy man said that the Lamia is heartless and only cares for itself.

These are things that would make a great episode of say Jim Henson's The Storyteller

Or Gegege no Kitaro both very good.

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I just remembered a story

A prince fell in love with a mysterious woman and they wed and while they lived happily he was suddenly growing sicker and sicker.

Then a holy man or monk came to visit, he was a good friend of the guy and seeing his condition had a suspicion. So he said to the prince to have his servants prepare a dinner of fried rice, with one side having sweet rice and the other side salty.

-(side note I thought that sounded pretty delicious envisioning either sweet Chinese sausage or salted egg for the rices)-

Anyways he must only eat the portion with the sweet rice while his wife was left with the salty. Afterwards he was instructed to sleep in a tall tower with a locked door all through the night and pretend to sleep waiting for anything strange. That night his wife became very thirsty and trapped in the room without water and tormented by the thirst she transformed into a huge snake and crept down from the tower to drink from the lake below.

He reported this to his friend afterwards and he explained that his wife was in fact a Lamia.

He explained that when a snake has lived not been seen by human eyes in a Hundred Years in grows a crest and becomes a king of snakes, after a Thousand Years unseen by humans it will sprout legs and become a dragon, in Five Thousand years it will then become a terrible creature called the Lamia.

He guessed that this girl had been possessed by a Lamia before he came across her and the demon is now feeding off his life force.

He is instructed that fire is the only way to truly destroy a Lamia and so in sadness he had a great oven built and as he asked his wife for her cooking he pushed her in there and left the house to burn down.

The monk said that while he might have loved her, the person he loved was already long gone and this was the only way. He then gifted the prince a stone that can turn things to gold to rebuild his fortune, but in sadness he threw it into a river and then the waters turned gold, and that is the origin of the Ganges River.

Aside from the glaring hindsight that this story could have been a great misunderstanding and he just killed his wife out of fear and misguided supernatural advice.

The idea of a monster secretly being your love is a very cool one. Like a double reversal of Beauty and The Beast.

If i were to recreate my version I would do it like Ancient Magus Bride, where a kind of Celtic or Irish Succubus was haunting an old man's garden who saw a glimpse of her, she first didn't care because he was too old and an unattractive prey, but then she grew to care for him because he was sweet and missed his own wife the creature reminding him of her when they were young.

But I would like to play around with the fear of it because unlike that mythological creature the Lamia is a shapeshifter and so a more physical terror would be at play, so might as well go full monster form as she transforms. And if I were to design this power it's gotta be through shedding skin and make it grousome, maybe like FMA have her eat the remains afterwards.

And on the very one sided ending I was thinking maybe he should not have the heart to do the deed, but by some reason the house does burn and he decides to stay there with her.

And maybe an extra twist she is the one that gets him out at the expense of her life dispelling what the holy man said that the Lamia is heartless and only cares for itself.

These are things that would make a great episode of say Jim Henson's The Storyteller

Or Gegege no Kitaro both very good.