teke teke and The slit mouth woman and are two of japans most terrifying urban legends.
Both are vengeful spirits, or onryo, wronged by humanity, and they wander around japan
looking for victims to rectify the pain they endured.
But what would happen if the slit mouthed woman and teke teke happened to cross paths
and battled it out to become japans most dangerous and powerful vengeful female spirit?
That’s the question we’re asking today on Life’s Biggest Questions.
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For those who need a refresher, I’m going to tell you a little about each of these urban
legends First up, Teke Teke.
Teke teke is the ghost of a young Japanese woman who’s body was cut in half by an oncoming
train after she fell on train tracks.
Then as she tried to crawl to the nearest train station and call for help, the attendant
didn’t help her, and left her to bleed out in the snow.
Her ghost appears as only the top half of a woman, and her lower half is missing.
But don’t let her apparent immobility fool you, teke teke, she claws across the ground
quite quickly when she spots a potential victim, too fast to get away for many.
While she crawls toward a victim, the sound she makes resembles ‘teke teke’, which
is how she got her name.
As a weapon, teke teke carries around a sharp knife or a scythe, and if she manages to catch
you, she’ll slice you in half so that you become one of her own.
Next, lets briefly talk about the legend of the slit mouth woman.
She’s also known as Kuchisake-onna, and stories about her have existed in japan since
the edo period in the 1600s.
Essentially, her story goes like this.
The slit mouth woman is a malicious spirit that was once a beautiful woman, who was mutilated
by her husband, a samurai, after he found out she was having an affair with another
samurai.
He sliced her mouth from ear to ear, creating a huge smile, and then asked her, who will
think you are beautiful now?
She died from the loss of blood.
Her spirit is said to roam the streets of japan at night and covers her mouth with a
either a mask, fan or scarf.
When she finds a potential victim, she asks them ‘am I pretty’.
If the victim answers yes, she will remove the item covering her mouth and ask again.
‘am I pretty’.
Then if the victim either For those who need a refresher, I’m going to tell you a little
about each of these urban legends For those who need a refresher, I’m going to tell
you a little about each of these urban legends yes or screams at the sight of her, she will
slash the victim from ear to ear so that they look like her.
It is impossible to run away from the slit mouth woman, if you try, she will just reappear
in front of you.
It is not impossible to outsmart her however.
In order to escape her, a victim will have to answer her question, “am I pretty”
with something vague or confusing like ‘you’re average or so so’.
Then when she pauses to consider what you have said, you can escape.
It is said that the slit mouth woman carries scissors as a weapon everywhere she goes.
For more information on the slit-mouth woman, check out our video, what if the slit mouth
woman was real.
If Teke Teke and the slit mouth woman came across each other, its unlikely that they
would allow the other to exist.
Lets ignore the fact that both these beings are benevolent spirits that cant be killed,
and talk about who would come out superior.
The slit mouth woman has an initial advantage, in that it is easy for her to disguise her
true nature.
According to legend, she is often seen wearing a surgical mask, something quite common in
japan, so she blends right in to the crowd.
Teke teke does not blend in very well.
Her top half has sometimes appeared on windowsills, so that her lack of bottom half is not showing,
but for the most part, its pretty easy to spot teke teke.
Yes, its true, the spirit of teke teke only appears as the top half of a woman, but her
weapon is a scythe, the slit mouth woman carries around scissors.
And lets not forget the fact that teke teke kills her victims in a much more violent way
than the slit mouth woman.
She slices them in half.
And apparently the slit mouth woman really likes candy.
If you throw candy at her she’ll get distracted, which is when you can escape her.
There are actually a lot of ways for a potential victim to get away from the slit mouth woman,
she seems like she might be easily distracted.
Teke teke does not ask her victims any questions, she simply charges at them.
Teke teke is far more vengeful than the slit mouth woman, she has no remorse and cannot
be outsmarted.
For these reasons, Teke Teke is the clear winner of this fight.
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