Ghost Stories; La Planchada, the ironed lady.

 

 

                                                   Ghost Stories; La Planchada

La Planchada also known as the  Ironed Lady, is a popular legend in Mexico.

The story dates at least as far back as the 1930’s

A nurse  named Eulalia was working  at the Juarez hospital in Mexico.

Her nures's uniform was always keept very clean and perfectly ironed.

She was said to be very good at her job and her patients felt enjoyed being under her care.

Then one day a new young and  handsome doctor joined the hospital’s staff, Eulalia and the doctor started seeing each other socially, and eventually  she fell in love with him and the two were engaged.

Not long  after their engagement, the doctor left to attend a medical seminar. To her shock and surprise, the doctor did not return the following week.  then another week passed and still he had not  returned. Eulalia became increasingly worried and felt something bad must have happened to him.
 
But several weeks later, the hospital received word from the doctor. He had met a new woman during the seminar and the two had recently married.

Upon hearing the news Eulalia was heart-broken and fell into depression. Her work began to suffer and she started to neglect the patients that were  under her care. As a result, one of her patients died. 

Realizing her terrible error, Eulalia became ill. She did not have the fight in her to survive  and died shortly after in the very hospital she worked in.


After her death strange things started to happen around the hospital. Patients, nurses, and even doctors started seeing a nurse in the emergency
room area.

Some versions of the story  claim that she appears to glow and floats instead of walking through the hospital corridors.

Others state she appears to walk normally, but no footsteps can be  heard. Eventually the hospital staff decided to call the apparition ‘La Planchada’ because she always appears wearing a clean, white, pressed uniform.

Several patients have reported seeing her and state that this ghostly nurse will appear at night on the ward she died in, too looks after the patients that appear to be neglected. 

In the morning these patients are well enough to be moved to less intensive care rooms.
When asked how they are feeling, they reply, “a nurse came in and healed me.”

Some people believe Eulalia returns as a spirit because of a sense of guilt.

Now it  seems she is forever doomed to pay for her mistakes in life.

There are a few other versions of this story.

One version claims she  was a cruel woman who treated her patients badly, so when she died, her punishment was to take care of patients for eternity.

In another version, Eulalia was never engaged to the doctor, this version states he rejects her advances and marries the other woman that he was already engaged to. She then takes her disappointment and anger out on the patients, resulting in several of them dying.

In any case it's an interesting story.


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More ghost and monster posts coming soon.

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I plan on adding a new post every Friday all October long.

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American Cryptid: Pukwudgie

                                                                Pukwudgie


Many American Indian myth's have stories of little people.

The Wampanoag of Massachusetts’ legend is of the Pukwudgie. A small humanoid creature that was said to be jealous of the affection the Wampanoag showed the giant Maushop ( according to another myth the giant created Cape Cod for them), the Pukwudgie began to torment the Wampanoag Indians, playing tricks on them, stealing their children, and burning their villages. Pukudgies are described as humanlike, two to three feet tall with large noses, and ears. Their skin is grey.







 A Pukwudgie, also spelled Puk-Wudjie, is sometimes said to be as tall 4-to-5-feet.

The Pukwudgie can become invisible, use magic, and create fire at the snap of their fingers, but their most dangerous antics involve shooting poison arrows (with which legend says they used to kill Maushop and his five sons), and turning into a half-porcupine/half-troll.

These small human-like monsters have been known to lure humans to their deaths either by poison arrow, or pushing the human off a cliff. Afterward, the Pukwudgie can control the souls of their victims.

In modern times, people have reported encountering Pukwudgies in Freetown-Fall River State Forest, which includes a reservation in the Wampanoag Nation.

Japanese Myth's: The Oni 👹

 

                                                   👹   Today's post is all about Oni  👹

 

 

 Oni's

Oni are considered very large, strong and violent  beings, By modern standards Bigfoot Ogres and other giants could be classified as a type of Oni..
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Oni origins.

Oni are believed to be born when evil humans die and end up in one of the many Buddhist Hells, there they are transformed into Oni.

They become the ogreish and brutal servants of Great Lord Enma, the ruler of Hell, wielding iron clubs with which they crush and destroy humans solely  for enjoyment. An oni’s job is to mete out horrible punishments such as peeling off skin, crushing bones, and every other torture imaginable to those who
 were evil (but not quite wicked enough to be reborn as demons themselves). 

Hell is full of oni, and they make up the armies of the great generals of the underworld.

Occasionally, when a human is so utterly irredeemable and down right evil with a soul that is beyond any redemption, he transforms into an oni during life, and remains on Earth to terrorize the living.

These transformed oni are the ones most legends tell about, and the ones who pose the most danger to human's.

 These oni are the stuff of nightmares the source legends and fairy tails ind the inspiration for countless stories threw out   Japan.
 

No two stories about oni are exactly alike except for one thing: oni are always the enemy of mankind.(Except in some Manga and Anime)

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Some villages hold yearly ceremonies to drive away oni, mostly at the beginning of Spring. During the Setsubun festival, people throw soybeans outside their homes and shout "Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!" Oni go out! Blessings come in!"). Monkey statues are also thought to guard against oni, since the Japanese word for monkey, saru, is a homophone for the word for "leaving". Folklore has it that holly can be used to guard  against Oni. 

 

 

In Japanese versions of the game tag, the player who is "it" is instead called the "oni".

In more recent times, oni have lost some of their original wickedness and sometimes take on a more protective function. Men in oni costumes often lead Japanese parades to ward off any bad luck, for example. Japanese buildings sometimes include oni-faced roof tiles called onigawara, which are  thought to ward away bad luck, much like gargoyles in Western tradition.

Oni are prominently featured in the Japanese children's story Momotaro..the little Peach Boy(see previous post)

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The word "oni" is sometimes believed to be derived from (on), the on'yomi reading of a character  meaning to hide or conceal, as oni were originally invisible spirits or gods which caused disasters, disease, and other terrible things. 

These nefarious beings could also take on a variety of forms to deceive (and often devour) humans.

The Chinese character (pinyin: gui; Jyutping: gwai) meaning "ghost" came to be used to describe these formless creatures.

The invisible oni eventually became anthropomorphized and took on its modern, ogre-like form, partly via synchronicity  with creatures imported by Buddhism, such as the Indian rakshasa(a large shapeshifting bigfoot like creature) and yaksha, as well as the hungry ghosts called gaki, and the devilish underlings  of Enma-O who punish sinners in Jigoku (Hell).

They also share a few similarities with the Arabian Jinn.

Another source for the oni's image is a concept from China and Onmyodo.

The northeast direction was once termed the kimon (demon gate), and was considered an unlucky direction through which evil spirits passed. Based on  the assignment of the twelve zodiac animals to the cardinal directions, the kimon was also known as the ushitora , or "Ox Tiger" direction,
and the oni's bovine horns and cat-like fangs, claws, and tiger-skin loincloth developed as a visual depiction of this term.


Temples are often built facing that direction, and Japanese buildings sometimes have L-shaped indention's at the northeast to ward oni away.
 

 

 Enryakuji, on Mount Hiei northeast of the center of Kyoto, and Kaneiji, in that direction from Edo Castle, are examples. The Japanese capital itself moved northeast from Nagaoka to Kyoto in the 8th century.

There is also a well known game in Japan called kakure oni, which means "hidden oni", or more commonly kakurenbo, which is the same as  the hide-and-seek game that children in western countries play.


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Other media
Anime, Manga etc.
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                             liru the werewolf  was dressed as an oni in the series during one episode......

                                            Peach Boy Riverfront anime and manga.

                                                                    Yozakura quartet

                                                 Dagashi Kashi Manga Chapter 172

  

                      

                        Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken/ That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

                                                         Yuna and the Haunted hot Springs

                                                  Fate Series ....shuten douji and Ibaraki Douji

                                                   

                                                        Monster Girls Red, Blue and Gren Oni

                                                     Peter Grill and the Philosophers Time 

                                                     

                                                Princes Connect Re-Dive ...Eriko

 

 

                                             Onizuka-chan and Sawarida-kun.. manga series.

                 Kemono Jihen, The manga features a few oni in a "food processing factory"..

Urusei Yatsura, the female lead, Lum Invader, is an oni alien depicted wearing a tiger-skin bikini and the entire alien race to which she belongs is fashioned after the classical concept of oni.

Ao no Fuuin uses oni as a main theme when the female protagonist is a descendant of a beautiful oni queen who wants to resurrect her kind.

In Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, an Oni called King Yemma runs the Check-In Station in Other World, where he decides which souls go to Heaven and which to Hell.

 

Hellboy: Sword of Storms, Hellboy fought a giant Oni. Before the final blow can be struck with the Sword of Storms, the Oni fades away so  that Hellboy can break the Sword of Storms on the statue releasing the brothers Thunder and Lightning.

Yo-Kai Watch, many of the creatures found are based on oni. Oni themselves appear as a class of boss enemies. They are distinct between each other, but all have horns. Some also have either claws, horns, or both.