Muu Shuwuu

Muu Shuwuu
モー・ショボー
DeSumSH1 Artwork from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner Artwork from Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Other Name(s)	Moh ShuvuuShin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux Shin Megami Tensei IV Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Devil Survivor Devil Survivor: Overclocked Devil Survivor 2 Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker Mou ShoboPersona 2: Eternal Punishment Party Moh ShuvuuShin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2
Origin	Buryat culture
Race(s)	AvianDevil Survivor Devil Survivor: Overclocked Devil Survivor 2 Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker RaptorShin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux Shin Megami Tensei IV Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse Shin Megami Tensei V Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Soul Hackers 2 Megami Ibunroku Persona Megami Ibunroku Persona: Ikū no Tō Hen Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card: Card Summoner Kētai Akuma Densho
Alignment(s)	Dark-LawShin Megami Tensei V Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance LawShin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
Arcana	LoversPersona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth PriestessPersona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth TemperancePersona 2: Innocent Sin Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
Order(s)	Wind

Muu Shuwuu is a Demon in the Megami Tensei franchise.

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Origin

Muu Shuwuu, Moh Shubuu, or Moh Shuvuu (lit. "evil bird") is a supernatural creature from Buryati Folklore. The Buryati are a nomadic ethnic group from the Republic of Buryatia, a region located between Mongolia and Siberia, and currently part of Russia.

This creature is described as a demonic bird, born when a young girl or woman suffers a violent death without ever knowing true love. Normally, a Muh Shuwuu will attack men that she can seduce using her youthful looks. She can change between bird and human form at will, but can never get rid of her beak, hiding it with her hands or clothes when possible. By the time the seduced man lowers his guard, the demon will reveal its ominous sharp beak and use it to kill her prey with a blow to the head. After that, Muh Shuwwu will proceed to suck out and consume the brains of her victim.

The name Muu Shuwuu supposedly means evil bird, and is misspelled both in the Megami Tensei Franchise and in the western internet at large. In Russian, the name is spelled as Муу шубуун, with "Moh Shubuu" and "Moh Shubuun" being the preferred transliterations.

The renowned Russian folklorist Matvey Nikolaevich (1858-1918), celebrated in his time by his expeditions to Buryati settlements to study their culture, catalogued the Muu Shuwuu in some of his work. Three tales concerning the creature are described by Matvey: One is about a young couple, in which the husband died and the wife became a Muu Shuwuu after eating his corpse. The second tells the tale of a hunter that manages to outsmart a Muu Shuwuu that became stuck in a tree, and after shooting her (either with an arrow or gun) he burns the remains. The third one is about Muu Shuwuu that inhabited a forest, causing mayhem in nearby regions. A warrior won against a Muu Shuwuu there, where he found out that she had a husband, who pleaded for his wife's life. Male Muu Shuwuu are also present, and explain that the habit of attacking humans was exclusive to the females. As an apology, the couple teach the warrior how to defend himself from their relatives, by using magical words.

Another common trope described by Matvey is that Muu Shuwuu usually holds two flints within her clothes, tucked under her armpits. One is a bright red flint in a good shape, while the other is decayed and rotten. It is said that to defeat one, the decayed flint should be taken and destroyed, as it's linked to her vital energies. The Muu Shuwuu, however, will try to deceive her opponents into taking the red one instead, causing them to become weaker and easier to kill.

Design

Muu Shuwuu's clothing is based on Buryati traditional female attires.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Muu Shuwuu.

Compendium

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Compendium Entries
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey	Meaning "evil bird," it's the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers, only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Shin Megami Tensei IV	Meaning "evil bird," it's the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers, only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse	Meaning "evil bird," it's the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers, only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Shin Megami Tensei V	Meaning "evil bird," it is the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers, only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner (Akuma Zensho; PSP)	出身地：モンゴル 死んだ少女の霊がなるという「悪しき鳥」。美しい娘の姿でも現れる。 少女が愛を知らずに死ぬと、このモー・ショボーになるといわれる。鳥の姿をするが、長い髪と尖った赤い唇を持つ美しい娘に化けることもできた。 モー・ショボーは旅人を誘惑する。その美しい姿に騙されてはいけない。旅人が隙を見せると、彼女は赤い唇をくちばしに戻す。そして旅人の頭に穴をあけ、脳みそをすするのである。 Translation: Place of origin: Mongolia
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (3DS)	Meaning "evil bird," it's the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers, only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak. Reappearing in her Devil Summoner form. Meaning "evil bird," it's the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers, only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Soul Hackers 2	Meaning "evil bird," it is the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers, only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army	Meaning "evil bird," it's the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers, only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon	Meaning "evil bird," it's the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers, only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Persona 2: Innocent Sin	Spirit of a girl who died without knowing life. Takes the form of a bird.
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment	Spirit of a girl who died without love and turned into a bird.
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth	Meaning "evil bird," the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love, in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers, only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth	Meaning "evil bird," the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love, in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers, only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Devil Survivor: Overclocked	Meaning "evil bird", it's the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Devil Survivor 2	Meaning "evil bird," it's the ghost of a young girl who died without knowing love in Buryat folklore. She seduces travelers only to crack their heads open and suck out their brains with her beak.
Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker
Kētai Akuma Densho	愛を知らぬまま死んでしまった少女の霊がなると言われる悪しき鳥。美しい娘の姿をして現れると言う。 出身地：モンゴル モー・ショボーの名は「悪しき鳥」という意味を持ち、不幸にも生きている間に愛を知ることも無く死んでしまった少女の霊が、鳥の姿となって現れたものとされている。長い髪と、鳥のようにとがった赤い唇をした美しい娘の姿に化けることができるとも言われ、旅人の前に娘の姿で現れては、誘惑すると言われる。この時に隙を見せると、彼女は唇を鳥のくちばしに戻し、旅人の頭に穴を空けて脳味噌を吸い取ってしまうとされる。 Translation: An evil bird said to be the ghost of a girl who died without knowing love. Said to appear as a beautiful girl. Place of origin: Mongolia The name Muu Shuwuu means "evil bird", and belongs to the ghost of a dead girl who, unfortunately, never knew love in her lifetime, and takes the form of a bird. She is said to be able to transform into a beautiful girl with long hair and sharp, bird-like red lips, and is said to appear before travelers, seducing them in the form of a girl. It is thought that if they show any weakness at this moment, she turns her lips turn back into a bird's beak, and she drills a hole in the traveler's head, sucking out their brains.

Nomenclature

This demon's English and Japanese names are transcriptions from Mongolian муу шувуу muu shuwuu rather than from Buryat.

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Moh ShuvuuShin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux Shin Megami Tensei IV Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Devil Survivor Devil Survivor: Overclocked Devil Survivor 2 Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker
	Muu ShuwuuShin Megami Tensei V Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Soul Hackers 2 Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army
	Mou ShoboPersona 2: Eternal Punishment
Japanese	モー・ショボー Mō Shobō	Muu Shuvuu
Korean	모쇼보 Mosyobo	Transliteration of Japanese モー・ショボー

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