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What are the legends of Japan

1, Hanako in the period of World War 2, the war between the United States and Japan Japan was bombed extensively. Hanako was trapped in the toilet and couldn't run to the bomb shelter and was buried in the fire. When she was trapped, she tried her best to call for help, but her classmates and teachers were all running for their lives and no one was there to help her. The reason why Hanako is so famous is because there are rumors that many students heard the sound of "It won't open, why won't it open" in the girls' restroom of the school late at night, and some of them even rumored to have seen Hanako. She was rumored to be a 14 year old girl with 2 eyes and a black hole in her mouth, wearing a dress. Those who have seen her have fainted in the restroom until they were found by others. In more serious cases, they mysteriously disappeared, and legend has it that they were taken to hell by Hanako through the toilet floor drain in the restroom. It is said that the longer the history, the older the building, the more likely to encounter Hanako. 2, 100 ghosts story is rumored that every year on the day of the Ghost Festival (also known as Satsuma Festival in Japan) in the evening gathered 100 people in the empty classroom, lit 100 white candles to start taking turns to tell ghost stories. Every time they finish a story, they blow out the candles in their hands, and so on. As the number of stories goes up, everyone's fear rises, and the light gets dimmer and dimmer as the candles are extinguished. Until the end of the first story blowing out the last candle, the ghost door will open a hundred ghosts appear. Rumor has it that this ceremony must participate in the people with the last story must be finished at 0:00 and blow out the candles to be able to. A hundred ghosts are on the street~! 3, the piano in the music classroom this legend in the campus music classroom every midnight will come out of the beautiful piano, according to those who claimed to have heard it, the tune is Beethoven's "To Alice". Rumor has it that a student who loved to play the piano broke his fingers on the piano's key cover and shattered his dream of becoming a pianist and committed suicide in the school's piano classroom. Before he died, he barely managed to finish the entire piece with his broken fingers, but the piece became more and more messy and bizarre as it went on. Anyone who listens to the entire piece three times dies a strange death. A janitor who was checking on the piano late at night witnessed himself playing and moving the piano, and said that the Beethoven photo in the classroom was emitting the same blue light at that time. So after that, some people say it is the ghost of Beethoven. 4, the ghost of the runway this legend has many versions, here are a few of the most common. The first one is that if you are still running on the track of the campus playground in the evening after the sun has set, a man will come up behind you and run in front of you. You won't be able to outrun him, and it's rumored that he'll come back and cut off your feet when he reaches the end of the playground, unless you can keep up with him so he can't get back in time for the finish line. It was said that if you gave up or quit in the middle of the race, he would appear behind you and cut off your legs as soon as you ran. Another version is that at the school pool, if you swim in the evening after the sun goes down, a man will appear. He will race you to swim. If you win, he leaves. If you lose, you will drown.5. XXX Shrine of the Sword SpiritThis legend tells of many shrines throughout Japan, most of which were built to seal or suppress ghosts. Some of these shrines are dedicated not to spirits but to weapons, which are either instruments of torture used for beheading or famous swords used by celebrities throughout the ages to shave their bellies. These weapons have accumulated a great deal of grievances, and if they are accidentally touched and broken, it will be the end of the story. Formed by the grievances of the severe gas and the killing gas of the sword itself combined out of the ghosts and monsters is almost impossible to subdue, that is to say, they are staring at means only death. 6, steel sickle this is a kind of open similar to the face of a man, shrimp body of the demon. It lives in the dense bamboo forest and usually haunts the water pools in the bamboo forest. Once a young girl comes to the river to wash herself, it waves two giant embedded griddles to cut off the girl's beautiful long hair. (Because of Japan's ancient poor girls will sell their long hair, so that is their precious treasure) 7, well Bur modern cities are vigorously building so the general city is very difficult to find a well again. But in the remote areas of the well or the people there rely on an important source of water for survival, so there is the legend of the well Bo. It is living in the well of the demon, every time is the kind of broken or abandoned old well is their best choice, often they live in the old well of the water is the kind of dead rats, dead bugs floating in the stench of the water. Whenever someone passes by late at night and pokes around down the well, they will slowly rise up from the well. They would say to that person, "fetch water and drink, fetch water and drink~" and if they did what they said, they disappeared. Instead, they are pulled into the well and become another dead soul in this well. (So dirty water to drink is also expected to die soon) 8, meat rampant this is a kind of full body is falling flesh of the demon, walking sound to hear people can be nauseous for days, smell the smell of its emanation of people can be last year's food can be vomited out. They are the lowest class of demons, without the slightest meaning or ability to think. They are endless gluttons, absorbing everything into their bodies through that hump of flesh