Urban Legends of Teke Teke and Kashima Reiko are often so similar that it is believed that they joined or started together. They both warn of a vengeful spirit without legs, crawling to their victims, allowing you to leave only when you can answer her puzzle.
Japan is not lacking in amazing urban legends, but few are as disturbing as the story of Teke Teke (テケテケ), a ghostly creature known for the terrifying appearance and chilling chilling frosty modus operandi. This story, often divided among students and horror enthusiasts, talks about a vengeful spirit, also classified as onryō, whose beginnings are rooted in the tragedy and whose presence is marked by a haunting sound-gold noise “Tee-Tete”, which does when he draws his delayed body in search of victims.
It is often said that the name of the spirit is Kashima Reiko, although it is only one of many varieties of legend. The urban legend has many varieties, and the spirit has many names, almost doing the story of Teke Teke a kind of ghostly fate for many different people in Japan. However, in almost all legends, seeing her revelation, he will most likely seal your own fate.
Teke Teke legend
The story of Teke Teke focuses around a youthful woman who met a gruesome fate, it is often said that she is the spirit of a school girl. While there are variants, the most common version talks about a girl who fell – or has been pushed – on the paths of the oncoming train. The blow broke her body at the waist, which led to her premature and painful death. Being far north in Japan on a winter night, the extreme chill made her veins freezed and bleeding to stop. For some time she stayed alive, calling for aid, providing herself from the rails.
In some versions she could aid her, but the staff of the station and observers did nothing, or at least too little and died of their injuries. In some versions, the staff saw her and covered it with a thread in which they died slowly.
Unable to find peace, it is said that her restless spirit wanders at night, it is often said that she is haunting venerable railway stations and gloomy alleys. By dragging the upper torso with his hands or elbows, making a clear sound “Teke-Tete” on the ground.
It is believed that everyone who meets Teke Teke is doomed to death. Many say that you will appear three days after listening to the story if you don't forget. It is said that he moves at unnatural speed, capable of chasing the fastest runners and even cars. Her nails turned into claws with which she stretches. When he catches the victim, he cuts it in half, reflecting her own pathetic death. Some versions of the legend suggest that she wears a scythe or other acute weapon, ensuring that her revenge is as brutal as her death.
Background for the legend of Teke Teke
It is often said that Teke Teke was a school girl from northern Japan, it is mainly said that there is Hokkaido. Although in winter it is very chilly, there is no way to hold a living person for a long time. In addition, the way the train strikes and hurts a person, most likely, will not cause this type of injury anyway.
However, it may happen that this part of the legend comes from real suicide at the Akabana station in Tokyo in 1935. The woman threw herself in front of the trains and her legs were cut off, but she did not die because of how they were crushed under the wheels. She talked to the train conductor, but died after taking to the hospital
In some varieties, Teke Teke is a school student, sometimes she is an adult woman. Often, her ghost history is transformed into a reflection of the age and surroundings of those telling this story. The stories told about the fact that he is a student of Teke Teke, are often associated with school intimidation and that she ended her life by jumping in front of the train. In this way, the legend exists as a kind of warning story about intimidation, although her revenge is apparently not constrained to persecutors.
It is often classified as onryō, a kind of vengeful spirit of Japan, who is often considered one of the most unsafe ghosts in Japan, created from hatred and return to revenge towards those who hurt them in life
The history of Teke Teke has existed for decades in many varieties and points of origin. Seemingly a combination of many stories that precede the current one. It seems that it can be inspired or at least related to the tragic history of Kashima Reiko haunting public bathrooms, especially in schools.
Connection with Kashima Reiko
Teke Teke is sometimes associated with another known Japanese spirit, Kashima Reiko, more related to school bathrooms and toilets. The story of Kashima Reiko divides similarities from Teke Teke, because he is also a vindictive spirit with a cut -off body. It seems that the story of Kashima Reiko is ahead of Teke Teke, although it looks like today more people know about the Teke Teke version. Due to the combination of the bathroom, its story is often told along with the Hanako-san spirit.
According to legend, Kashima Reiko is the spirit of a woman who died in Hokkaido, sometimes in Muroran, suffers from a similar fate of cutting in half a train. Most of the story begins at the end of World War II or a period later. It is said that he is an office worker and attacked and rape by an American soldier stationed there after the war. Some say that the attack took place in a public toilet and that
The assault was solemn, the doctor found her and saved her life, but she had to amputate her arms and legs. Her vanity was so shocked by a novel body that she jumped in front of the train to take her life. In many variants of legend it was not amputation, but the shame and depression after the attack made her take her life.
Today it is always said that she is a woman, but when stories circulated for the first time, the history of amputation was also sometimes a military veteran. This is often associated with the sanctuary in the city of Kashima, where many soldiers visited the prayer for victory during the war. Many Yokai or Ghosts are often forgotten gods and that it can be one of these cases of God's war, Takemikazuchi. The temple was also moved in 1972 to Hokkaido, about the same time when Kashim's story began to spread.
There are also people who say that Kashima Reiko is a Psil-Piesca version, terrifying children from the 1970s and that the name of this spirit was actually sounding Kashima Reiko. Before 1970, history often worked: the creation knocked on the door, asking that it was opening the door or needed their legs. If you answer “no”, it would cut one and would take him. If you answered yes, an additional leg would grow on your body.
Unlike other Teke Teke variants, her spirit only persecute the bathrooms, in which she asks unfortunate victims of questions about her death and where her legs are. Although it is not said that he has not died in the toilet, the stories of their haunting ghosts are quite huge and many in Japan.
How to avoid Teke Teke and Kashima Reiko
In some versions you can survive the meeting with Kashima Reiko, if you answer with the phrase: “I need them now”, where he will continue: “Who told you my story?” Puzzle, you should answer: “time“, Or “Demon Demon mask“Which can be a phonetic root of the name Kashima. People also say that if you answer that her legs are in the expressway Meishin, the main way between Osaka and Nagii.
If they do not answer correctly, he kills them in a similar way to his own death. Some believe that Kashima Reiko and Teke Teke are actually the same being or at least different interpretations of the same tragic history of the spirit.
Like many Japanese urban legends, there are superstition on how to avoid meeting Teke Teke. Some say that they can be detached if we correctly answer their questions, while others insist that saying some protective phrases can save potential victims. In the case of Kashima Reiko, it is said that answering her question about where her legs are with the phrase “they are on the expressway Meishin” can tranquil her spirit and save her life.
Cultural influence of Teke Teke and Kashima Reiko
The legend of Kashima Reiko and Teke Teke is one of the many stories of Yūrei (ghost) that penetrate Japanese folklore, demonstrating the long fascination of the country with ghosts, death and revenge. Her story was adapted to movies, manga and even video games, maintaining its terrifying presence in popular culture. Some say that if he catches you, he will turn into Teke Teke.
Teke Teke or Kashima Reiko is not only a story that is to frighten children – he represents the fear of a sudden, tragic death and idea that ghosts can return with unfinished matter. Its legend is still passed over for generations, evolving with every story, but always keeping the same terrifying essence: when you hear the sound of Teke Teke, it may be too delayed.
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