Extending tongue attack
A motif, one of the traits figures share. All traits.
Form
4 figures
Chōchinobake
This tongue, cool and slightly damp, is used to playfully lick unsuspecting passersby, causing them to experience a sudden, disorienting chill that runs down their spine.
Krasue
in some tellings it feeds by extending a long tongue-like proboscis into its victim.
Tenjōname
Tenjōname, literally "ceiling-licker," is a yōkai of the Japanese Edo period depicted as a tall, gaunt, faintly humanoid figure with an extraordinarily long tongue, shown clinging to or reaching along the ceiling of an old building.
Manananggal
Using an elongated, thread-like tongue, it can pierce through the roofs of houses to reach its victims.