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An Evil Demon Who Causes Dropsy - Tibetan Folk Art Print

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Chevron cut wooden frames make a timeless statement in three distinctive colors: black, white and natural. Each frame is made of sustainably sourced FSC® certified knotless pine. And your artwork is protected behind ultra-clear perspex glaze that’s lighter than glass and shatter-resistant.

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Luscious artist-grade cotton canvas, hand-stretched and finely textured, gives every detail depth and precision, catching light and color with striking clarity. While a precisely measured floating frame leaves a slim gap around the canvas, so it seems to hover with a sleek, gallery-worthy effect. Finished with your choice of frame color — black, white or natural — made from sustainably sourced FSC® certified knotless pine.

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Forget 4 color CMYK. Giclée layers up to 12 — alive with deeper shadows, richer highlights and multidimensional contrasts. Pro-lab printing process helps art stay bold & breathtaking for up to 100 years. And the neo-pigment, water-based inks are 100% non-hazardous and toxin-free.

About the Artwork

Mid-stride on a celadon floor, the dMu demon arrives with their tambourine already sounding. An unnamed Tibetan painter laid this watercolor on cloth around a single diagnosis: dropsy, the slow flood that swells a body from inside. Lampblack skin drinks the light. Two ringed eyes stare past the viewer and an orchid-pink mouth splits into a grin.

Every accessory has a job. A curved striker meets the malachite drumhead of a Bon sorcerer’s tambourine. A goat’s horn rides in the vermilion sash, slate-gray bells hanging off a chaplet at the hip. Lac-bead rosaries cross a mauve jacket stippled with chalk lattice. Striped streamers pour from the knotted headcloth in saffron and viridian bands.

Then comes the bargain. Beside them a burnt-orange lotus bowl holds eggs and rice, the offering Tibetan demonology sets out to turn edema away. An ultramarine sky presses flat and close above. The household’s reply waits at the right edge. Recording Himalayan folk medicine at the moment of negotiation. Sickness came dressed for a festival and found supper already served.

Origin Story

The dMu, or Mu, are an indigenous class of spirit or earth demon rooted in ancient, pre-Buddhist Tibetan tribal belief. Originally one of Tibet's early proto-historic clans, they transformed into a class of local spirits as animist and Bon traditions were absorbed into Tibetan Buddhism. In royal genealogies and myth, the dMu are bound to the dMu-thag—the "heavenly rope" or ladder of light, often a rainbow—by which ancient kings descended from heaven and climbed back upon death. In traditional medicine and folklore they are blamed for dropsy and wasting diseases.

Thangkas and watercolours, such as works catalogued by the Wellcome Collection, portray them as black-skinned, wrathful figures wielding Bon ritual instruments: a single-sided tambourine, curved stick, phur bu dagger, goat's horn, and chaplet of bells.

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