Japanese Horror Legends (Part 1)

JAPANESE HORROR LEGENDS (Part 1)

This entry is about japanese horror legends (because not long ago it was Halloween's day) Here are some of them!

Hanako-san, the girl of the bathroom

Hanako-san is a ghost girl who stays in the bathrooms of some japanese schools. Japanese people call her Toire no Hanako-san, what literally means ''Hanako of the bathroom''

She has a bit short hair, black and straight, she wears a red skirt, and her gaze can freeze the blood of the bravest person.

She is in the third floor, in the bathroom number 3, but in other versions, she is in the bathroom number 4 (considering that in Japan the number 4 is a cursed number) Generally her spirit stays in the girls' bathrooms, but she can be seen in the boys' bathrooms too, in the middle of the humidity, the semi-darkness and the reek, because she prefers the bathrooms bad cared, and bad lit, therefore the teachers, taking advantage of the fear that Hanako causes, recommend to the students to keep clean the bathrooms.

It is said that , if you don't open the door but you feel a presence in the bathroom, probably it is Hanako-san. You can provoke her to appear kocking at the door three times, calling her name, or asking ''Hanako-san, are you here?''. It isn't sure she answers you, but if she does, she will say ''Yes, I'm here'' with a calm and low voice. Once you know she is there, really you would have to be very brave to open the door, because she will be more angry than if you don't call her. But, if you are a student with good marks, you can be relaxed, because it is said  that she will calm down and will disappear.

There are many versions of her frightening apparition, like in Yamagata it is said that Hanako isn't really a young girl, she is a demon with horrible appearance that uses the voice of a girl to attract the curious people, and could attack you, or in Yokohama, where the students think that, if you spin around the toilet while you insult her, a blooded hand will go up from the toilet and will try to catch you.

The japanese people talk about this girl since the 80s, and there are also many versions of her origin.

Some of them said that she was murdered during the Second World War, others said that she died in a accident, falling from the bathrooms' window, others, that she was murdered by her mad father and others said that she committed suicide (Considering that Japan has one of the highers suicide rate, many teenagers commit suicide by the social pressure of the obtaining of good marks, such as the good marks that make Hanako to fade...)

Kuchisake Onna

If you go to Japan, you have to be careful if you go to walk around the streets in the night. Kuchisake Onna could appear, whose name means ''The woman with the torn mouth''

It is said that she appears with a surgical mask (considering that in Japan it's normal to wear these masks for the diseases prevention) and a sack. Then, she asks you ''I'm pretty?''. If you say ''no'', she will decapitate you with an enormous pair of scissors that she has.. If you say ''yes''

she will take off her mask, revealing her torn mouth from ear to ear. Then, she will ask again ''And now, I'm pretty?'', If you change your answer and say ''no'', she will cut you in half. If you say ''yes'', you will become a being like her, because she will tear your mouth.

The legend tells that, long time ago, there was a really pretty but smug woman who was married with a samurai. The beautiful woman was popular between men and she used to deceive her husband. Her husband noticed her infidelity, and one day the man tore his wife's mouth from ear to ear, because of the jealousy and the fury, shouting to her ''Do you think you are pretty?'' She became a Youkai (demon spirit) and she has returned to take revenge asking her victims if she is pretty, then she will murder them.

Teke Teke

A teory say that Teke Teke is the ghost of a japanese student who wanders around the train stations of Japan. When she was alive, she was very skittish and impressionable, because of that, she was victim of teasing. One day of summer (season of cicadas in Japan) her classmates, seeing her waiting for the train with the gaze lost, came nearer to her from the back and threw a cicada to her shoulder. The girl, frightened, jumped to the railway, where a fast Shinkansen (a  high-speed train) broke her in two parts. Since that day, she wanders near to stations, looking for murder people like the ones who precipitated her death.

This story is well-known between the japanese students, is about one victim of Teke Teke:

A male student of a school only for men ended the classes later than normally, when suddenly, before he leaves the school, he heard a strange noise behind him. The nervous boy turned and saw a pretty girl looking to him from a window of the second floor of a building. She was looking to him with the arms supported in the ledge of the window. But seconds later she jumped through the window and fell to the floor, without hurting herself,  revealing that she hadn't the lower part of the body...

The boy, frozen because of the fear, saw her crawling with the arms, making a noise like ''Tek, tek, tek, tek ,tek...'' She was leaving traces of blood of her organs exposed, when she jumped violently on him and cut him in two parts, and he became another Teke Teke.      

 This is all for today! Please wait for the second part for these scary stories! :)