Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Myths: Kuchisake-onna

Once again, this is off topic. I don't know why our teacher makes us do these topics but whatever. This topic is about myths. There are scary myths and not so scary myths. Me being a person who loves scary stuff and enjoying the gruesome and gore in movies, I obviously had to do a scary one. I noticed that a lot of the myths and urban legends are from Japan and I am part Japanese so I had to do one based on Japan. Anyways, I have one that I'm really interested in. This myth is about Kuchisake-onna or The slit mouthed woman. It is said that there was a stunning woman who married a Samurai. The samurai was filled with anger and got a sword and slit her mouth saying, "Who's going to think you're beautiful now?" After that, it is said she roams the streets in Japan wearing a surgical mask. If you have bad luck coming in contact with her, she will ask you a questions. "Do you think I'm beautiful?'' If you say yes, she takes off the mask and yells, "What about now?" If you answer no, she will have an oversized pair of scissors and slit your throat. If you say yes, she is still going to do the same thing. You can't run away from her either. She will be everywhere you go. People say she mostly hunts for children and some have seen her in other places like South Korea. But there is one thing you could do so you can get away from her. If she asks you the question, you can say "You look alright" or " I think you're average." It will make her confused and giving you time to run away from her. So that's it. Hopefully I didn't make you scared but I really don't care. See ya guys next time.

2 comments:

  1. I like this omg! I love legends. Anyhow I like how you reached out to a myth that is part of your ethnicity. Girl, have I ever told you how sassy you are like damn you don't care about anything. Do you boo boo! Anyways this was great!

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  2. This scared me, but you did a great job on this post. Very well written and enjoyable to read.

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