Hanako, the ghost in the toilet almost achieved the status of a national phenomen in Japanese legend 20 Years ago, when a wave of stories of ghost-sightings swept through the nation's school yards.
Every child had a "Hanako" story to tell. The stories, of course, are many and varied but every schoolchild in Japan, at one time it another, has stood in dread and anticipation as he or she ventured into the school toilet alone.
This is familiar to the legend if Kashima Reiko, a female ghost without legs who also lived in schools bathrooms. The correct way to answer her varies. In one version, you have to say: Kashima Reiko: KA = Kamen (Mask), SHI = Shinjn (dead person), MA = Ma (demon)
Yet another version features Aoi Manto or Aka Manto, a mail ghost who waits in the last stall in the girl's Bathroom. Anyone entering the bathroom hears a voice asking "Which do you prefer, the red paper or the blue paper?"
If they pick "red" he kills them by slashing their back or neck repeatedly with a blade, to make them kook like they're wearing a red cape. If they pick "blue",then they're killed by hanging.
He's known as Aka Manto, Aoi Manto, Aoi Hanten, Aka Kami and Aoi Kami
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Japanese & Korean urban legends
ParanormalJust a collection about some Korean and Japanese legends ^_^ hope you enjoy reading them!
