image-as-protective-ward

Pal-Rai-Yuk · salience 0.9

“Its counter-measure is its own portrait: the creature recoils from its likeness, and so its image was painted on the bottoms of kayaks and umiaks, turning the hull itself into a ward.”

Amabie

“This instruction to reproduce and disseminate her image as a ward is the detail most tellings foreground, and it is what later gave the creature such a distinctive second life.”