This 1800’s print and poem titled, The Hairy Prospect or the Devil in a Fright by the English artist and caricaturist, Thomas the-hairy-prospect-or-the-devil-in-a-frightRowlandson, shows a woman standing by a bed to left, lifting her skirt up showing her scary hair vagina; to right, a hairy and winged devil with a huge penis turns away, recoiling in horror at the sight; open door at right.

The poem reads;

Once on a time the Sire of evil
In plainer English call’d the devil
Some new experiment to try
At Chloe cast a roguish eye
But she who all his arts defied
Pull’d up and shew’d her sexes pride
A thing all shagg’d about with hair
So much it made old Satan stare
Who frightend at the grim display
Takes to his heels and runs away

You will find that scary hairy vagina stories have been told all throughout history. Vagina dentata (Latin for toothed vagina) describes a folk tale in which a woman’s vagina is said to contain teeth, with the associated implication that sexual intercourse might result in injury, emasculation, or castration for the man involved.

In Hinduism, the asura Andhaka, son of Shiva and Parvati (but not aware of it), is killed by Shiva when he tries to force the disguised Shiva into surrendering Parvati. Andhaka’s son Adi, also an asura, takes the form of Parvati to seduce and kill Shiva with a toothed vagina in order to avenge Andhaka, but is also slain.

In Māori mythology, the trickster Māui tries to grant mankind immortality by reversing the birth process, turning into a worm and crawling into goddess of night and death Hine-nui-te-pō’s vagina and out through her mouth while she sleeps. His trick is ruined when a pīwakawaka laughs at the sight of his entry, awakening Hine-nui-te-pō, who bites him to death with her obsidian vaginal teeth.

In Shintoism the Ainu legend is that a sharp-toothed demon hid inside the vagina of a young woman and emasculated two young men on their wedding nights.[5] Consequently, the woman sought help from a blacksmith who fashioned an iron phallus to break the demon’s teeth.[6][7] The legendary iron phallus is considered that enshrined at the Kanayama Shrine in Kawasaki, Japan, and there the popular Festival of the Steel Phallus (かなまら祭り) is held each spring.[8][9][10][11] Also, prostitutes considered that praying at that shrine protected them against sexually transmitted diseases.

Source:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1596675&partId=1&people=87199&peoA=87199-1-7&page=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata

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