Of coourse I don't live in Japan, but this legend has kept me with the llights on for 3 weeks now.
The slit mouthed is a legend that dveloped in the ancient samuri era and erupted again in the 1980s. There was a rumor going around that a woman wearing a white surgical mask was going around Japan and kidnapping children, taking them to her house, killing and mutilating them.
This legend was often seeen as a terribley true, as a number of Japanese school children were going misssing and found dead. The weapon has been changed around; when the legend first started, she had a sword, when it started again in the 80s, she used a crescent sickle, but in the newly adapted movie, Carved, she had a giant pair of scissors. SHe would approch children with the mask covering her mouth and asked, "Am I pretty?" The anser was always yes, since she was supposed to have beautiful eyes. When the child answered, she would rip of her mask and ask "How about now?" If the child were to answer no, she would kill them then and there. Even if the child said yes, she would take her back to the woman's house, and kill them there. Japan orderes a scrict law that school children were to not walk alone, even in daylight, and to stay in groups for saftey. The only way to escape her was to ask her"Am I pretty." and she would supposedly walk away confused, or to say "You're just average." or "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." and she would never bother you again. However, children often made the mistake of rnning away, the woman would catch up anyway. If a child made that mistake, he should have rock candy on him. It is said that if you threw the candy at her, she would stop to eat it, since it was claimed to be her favorite sweet.It turns out that this murderess from the 80s was indeed real. Recently, a man came forward and said he saw a woman who was chasing a group of young elementary students hit her head and fall down a ditch. Scientists have found the skull and reconstructed it to see if it reall was the woman. It was, but her mouth was ripped wide, with all her gums and teeth showing.
The slit mouthed is a legend that dveloped in the ancient samuri era and erupted again in the 1980s. There was a rumor going around that a woman wearing a white surgical mask was going around Japan and kidnapping children, taking them to her house, killing and mutilating them.
This legend was often seeen as a terribley true, as a number of Japanese school children were going misssing and found dead. The weapon has been changed around; when the legend first started, she had a sword, when it started again in the 80s, she used a crescent sickle, but in the newly adapted movie, Carved, she had a giant pair of scissors. SHe would approch children with the mask covering her mouth and asked, "Am I pretty?" The anser was always yes, since she was supposed to have beautiful eyes. When the child answered, she would rip of her mask and ask "How about now?" If the child were to answer no, she would kill them then and there. Even if the child said yes, she would take her back to the woman's house, and kill them there. Japan orderes a scrict law that school children were to not walk alone, even in daylight, and to stay in groups for saftey. The only way to escape her was to ask her"Am I pretty." and she would supposedly walk away confused, or to say "You're just average." or "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." and she would never bother you again. However, children often made the mistake of rnning away, the woman would catch up anyway. If a child made that mistake, he should have rock candy on him. It is said that if you threw the candy at her, she would stop to eat it, since it was claimed to be her favorite sweet.It turns out that this murderess from the 80s was indeed real. Recently, a man came forward and said he saw a woman who was chasing a group of young elementary students hit her head and fall down a ditch. Scientists have found the skull and reconstructed it to see if it reall was the woman. It was, but her mouth was ripped wide, with all her gums and teeth showing.
