19] Teke-Teke
Teke-Teke (or Tek-Tek) is a
scary Japanese urban legend about a girl who fell under a train and was cut in
half. She took a long time to die and now her ghost roams through Japan,
dragging her top half along using her claw-like hands. Every time she moves,
she makes a “teke-teke” sound.
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There is a story about a
young boy who was leaving his school one evening when he heard a noise behind
him. Looking back, he saw a beautiful girl sitting at a window. The girl had
her arms propped up on the window sill and was just staring out at him. He
wondered why she was there, because it was an all-boys school.
When she saw him looking back
at her, the girl smiled and hugged herself so that she was holding her elbows.
Then suddenly, she leaped out of the window and landed on the ground outside.
The boy realized with horror, that she was missing the lower half of her body.
She made her way towards
him, clawing along the ground and running on her elbows making a
teke-teke-teke-teke-teke sound. The boy was filled with terror and revulsion.
He tried to run, but he was frozen to the spot. Within seconds, she was upon
him and she took out a scythe and cut him in half, making him into one of her
own.
When kids tell this story,
they warn each other about Teke-Teke. They say she carries a sharp saw or a
scythe, and if she catches you, she’ll cut you in half and you’ll become just
like her. She is said to chase children who play at dusk. She is also known as
“bata-bata” (again, the sound of it running on its elbows) or “The Girl That
Runs On Her Elbows.”
It is also similar to the story of
Kuchisake-Onna (the Slit-Mouth Woman) and the story of Kashima Reiko. The
American version is called Click Clack..
20] Tenome
Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth is based on
Tenome, a Japanese urban legend about the ghost of a blind man who has eyes on
the palms of his hands. “Te-no-me” means “eyes on hands”.
There was a blind old man who
was attacked by robbers. They beat him viciously and left him to die alone in a
field. As he lay dying, the blind man cried out in anger and frustration, “If
only I had seen their faces! But my eyes can’t see! If only I had eyes on the
palms of my hands!”
Because he died in such a
state of rage and agony, the blind man returned as a ghost named Tenome. His
desire for revenge was so great that his blind eyes were gone and he grew a new
pair eyes on the palms of his hands.
Now Tenome roams through
cities and villages, searching for the robbers who murdered him. He is able to
see by holding his hands out in front of him. But Tenome never saw the face of
his attacker, so he simply kills whoever he can get his hands on. Although he
has eyes in his hands, he is still figuratively blinded by his anger.
One night, a Japanese boy
was dared by his friends to go into a graveyard and test his courage. As the
boy walked through the cemetery, he suddenly saw an old man emerge from the
darkness. As the figure got closer, he noticed that the old man was blind and
had eyeballs on the palms of his hands.
The terrified boy fled as
fast as he could. He ran into a temple and begged the priest to help him. The
priest told him to hide in a chest and then went off to hide himself.
When Tenome entered the
temple, he wandered around with his hands held out in front of him, searching
for his prey. The boy crouched inside the chest, not daring to breathe as he
listened to the sound of footsteps coming closer and closer to his hiding
place. The footsteps stopped right next him and he heard a strange sucking
sound. Slurp! Slurp! Slurp!
In the morning, the priest
came out of hiding. He opened the chest to let the boy out, but when he peered
inside, he was horrified. The young man was dead. Tenome had sucked all the
blood and bones out of the boy’s body, leaving nothing behind but his limp,
saggy skin.
21] Tomino
Tomino is a Japanese urban legend about a poem that kills anyone who
recites it out loud.
In this world there are
things that you should never say out loud, and the Japanese poem “Tomino’s
Hell” is one of them. According to the legend, if you read this poem out loud,
disaster will strike. At best, you will feel very ill or injure yourself. At
worst, you could die.
I have no idea whether or not it is safe to read the English
translation out loud. If I were you, I would err on the side of caution.
One person said: “I once read Tomino’s Hell
on the air for an online radio show called Radio Urban Legends. At first
everything was normal, but gradually my body, it became difficult to read. I
read half of it and then broke down and threw it away. Two days later I got
injured and I was left with seven stitches. I do not want to think that this
was because of the poem.”
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