La Llorona this folklore originates from mexico but it has also been heard in Columbia, it
translates to The Weeping Women, This is how the story goes,
Its the 16th century, a beautiful women named Maria lives in a very poor section of Juarez,
mexico with her children. she begins to have a relationship with a wealthy
man and wants to marry him. The man finds out that she has children and
puts an end to the relationship. This sends maria into a insane rage and she
goes home and gets her children, she leads her children to a river and drowns them
Once she realize's her children are dead she
leaves their floating corpses in the river and goes to the mans house
to tell him she no longer has children, he opens the door and see's her bloody white
gown, he demands her to leave the house and tells her to never return.
She once again goes into a rage, and not taking no for an answer she goes back to the river
and drowns herself. When she dies she is challenged at the gates
of heaven and is asked about the whereabouts of her children,
she is not permitted to enter the afterlife until she has found her children. So now maria
is forced to wander the earth for eternity in search for her children people claim they can hear her
crying out ay, mis hijos! which translates to Oh, my children.
People that say they have seen her have claimed she is seen on the night of a full moon, wandering
the streets wearing a white dress with a light veil covering her
face. others say she appears at night or during the
late evenings appearing out of rivers or lakes in mexico.
it is believed she will kidnap wandering children who resemble her missing children,
its also believed people that hear her cries are marked for death.
Its said that she lets out a deafening cry before disappearing into a river just before
sunrise. Its believed that this folklore is told to
keep children from wandering the streets at night and also to keep
children well behaved.
The Slit-Mouthed Woman This is a Japanese folklore but it has also
been heard in china, This is how the story goes,
A women named Kuchisake-Onna was the wife of a samurai, she started to think that her
husband was getting too old and unattractive, So she went out and met a man,
she brought the man back to their house and began to cheat on her husband.
Her husband came home and caught her in the act. He was furious and slit her mouth ear-to-ear
then murdered her. She is believed to have come back as a evil
spirit and wanders the streets of japan asking people if she is pretty.
She wears a surgical mask and asks people if she is pretty, if they reply with no she
immediately kills them with scissors but if the person replies with yes then she
removes the surgical mask and asks how about now? If the person answers
no she slices them in half but if they answer yes then she slices the persons mouth to resemble
hers. She has also been believed to mainly pray
on children and asks them the same set of questions with the same consequences.
Its believed that she is impossible to run away from and if you try to she will
just appear right in front of you. People believe that there are ways to escape
her such as giving her gifts or when she asked if im pretty, reply with
you are average and also when she asks am i pretty reply with the same question she
asked you. alleged sightings began to spread in 1979
in nagasaki, it caused panic in towns throughout japan.
there are reports of schools allowing children to only go home in groups escorted by teachers
as they feared for safety of the children as they believed the slit mouthed woman
was going to kill them. there have been many recent sightings of her
this includes a report from south korea, it said that in 2004 a women
wearing a red mask was seen chasing children several times a day.
Also in October 2007, a coroner found some old records from the late 1970s about a woman
who was chasing little children she was then hit by a car while mid chase
and the womans mouth was revealed to be sliced from ear to ear.
Tiyanak This folklore originates in the Philippine's
the tiyanak is believed to be a vampire like creature who lurks in the jungles of the Philippine's.
Its believed that when walking through the jungle a person will hear the cries of a new
born baby, follow the cries and the person will come across a baby wrapped
in linen, once the baby is picked up it reveals its true form and attacks
the victim, its believed to be the shape of a baby but forms sharp claws and fangs.
its believed that the tiyanak enjoys leading travelers astray and abducting children.
its said that the tiyanak is the spirit of a child whose mother died before giving birth.
locals believe that there are ways to counter the tiyanak's attack, they believe if you
come in contact with it then you have to quickly turn your clothes inside out as it finds this
amusing and lets you free they also believe it flee's from loud sounds
such as fire works and is also scared off by garlic and rosary.
Eliza Day This folklore originated in ireland.
this is how the story goes, In ireland there was a young women named eliza
day, people called her the wild rose because they said she was
as beautiful as the wild roses that grew near the river.
One day a man came into the town in which eliza's home was, he then saw her and it was
love at first sight. He found out where she lived and knocked on
her door he then introduced himself, They started to talk for a while
the then took her in his arms and kissed her. Elisa felt a connection between them.
on the second day the man went to visit her again he brought her one single red rose and
told her she was the most beautiful women he had ever seen he then asked
her if she would meet him down near the river where the wild roses grew.
on the third day she met him near the river, she stood on the river bank and admired the
beauty of the place, the man kissed her on her lips he then stood
behind her and hit her over the head with a rock he then started
to furiously bash her skull, as she layed there dying he crouched down
and whispered in her ear all beauty must die.
he then placed a rose in her mouth and dragged her body into the river and watched it
disappear beneath the surface of the water.
People in ireland claim that they have seen the ghost of eliza day.
They say she wanders near rivers and has visible head wounds and has blood running down her
face while she clutches a single rose.
bloody mary This folklore is known world wide but is believed
to originated from england. There are several stories about who bloody
mary is, some believe she was a witch who kidnapped children and was
burnt at the stake but others believe that is mary tudor,
Mary tudor was the daughter of king henry the 8th, she later became the queen of england
and was nicknamed bloody mary because she would burn people at the
stake because they refused to follow the same religion as her.
It is believed that a person can conjure the spirit of bloody mary by saying her name three
times while looking into a mirror in a dimly lit room.
people believe that if you shout i stole you baby bloody mary she will appear this
is because queen mary the 1st was prone to having phantom pregnancies and
couldn't have kids. The ritual was first believed to be performed
in the 1960s as party games and cases of people doing it have
been reported from the 1970's. In order to do this ritual you must turn of
all the lights, then light a candle and look into a mirror and say bloody mary
three times, she is then supposed to appear. the spirit is believed to appear as a corpse,
a witch or ghost and she can be friendly or evil and is sometimes
covered in blood. Once bloody mary appears she is believed to
start screaming at a person she is also believed to strangle people
and scratch their eyes out. there are several spooky stories of people
who have tried it, people have reported seeing her and also said their candle have gone out
and their doors have locked on there own. people also say mary worth three times,
as mary worth was believed to be a witch linked with the salem witch trials.
The hallucinations that occur while doing the ritual have been explained as the caputo
effect. this is when someone stares into a mirror in a dimly-lit
room it may eventually cause someone to hallucinate. Facial features may appear to "melt" or disappear
this is due to sensory deprivation. There are several videos on the internet of
people trying the bloody mary ritual. let me know if you ever tried it and if so
did anything happen during it?
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