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.

Japanese Legends: Ibaraki doji ...Oni Woman..

 

 

 

 

Art link https://www.wallpaperflare.com/ibaraki-douji-fate-grand-order-fate-series-women-blonde-wallpaper-zblow

 

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 Ibaraki Doji is also know as the “thorn tree child”

She  is one of the most well known as well as one of the most feared demons in Japanese folklore.

She was the chief deputy to Shuten doji, the Oni King. Not very much is known about Ibaraki doji’s
life; Most stories depict Ibaraki doji as a kijo, or a female oni; yet there are other stories which refer to Shuten doji’s  deputy as a male so its really anybodys gyuess at this point(Im going to go with the female version of the story). 

Ibaraki doji was a cruel and   terrifying monster, bent of wreaking as much havoc in the human world as she could.
 

Some visions claim she was not only Shuten Dojis second in command but also his lover


Ibaraki doji’s most famous story takes place at Rashomon, the southern gate of old Kyotos city walls. Rashomon was built in 789, but after  the Heian period it fell into serious disrepair and became known as an unsavory place. It was overgrown and unkempt. Thieves and bandits hung out near it.

 It even served as a dumping point for unwanted babies, and a spot to dispose of murder victims. But the scariest part of its haunted reputation was the
 

                                                         Rashomon Gate replica

 

legend of Rashomon no oni — the demon of Rashomon.

 

After his celebrated victory over Shuten doji, the hero Minamoto no Yorimitsu returned triumphant to Kyoto. He was celebrating at his home with his  deputies — Sakata no Kintoki, Urabe no Suetake, Usui Sadamitsu, and Watanabe no Tsuna — when Fujiwara no Yasumasa, a noble, informed them that an oni was seen haunting Rashomon gate. Watanabe no Tsuna, having just returned from a great battle with Shuten doji’s clan, could not believe that there were any oni left, and single-handedly went out to investigate. He mounted his horse and went south.

                                           Watanabe Tsuna fighting the demon  at the Rashomon

When Tsuna arrived at the gate, a great howling wind broke out and his horse could travel no further. He dismounted and went on foot. Approaching the gate in the fierce gale, he noticed an enormous hand suddenly reach out of the dark to grab his helmet. Tsuna wasted no time, and swung his great katana around, severing the arm of an enormous demon: it was Ibaraki doji, coming to avenge the murder of Shuten doji. 

The injured demon ran away, leaving her arm behind, and Rashomon was no longer haunted.

Ibaraki doji later returned to Rashomon, looking for her arm. 

She disguised herself as Watanabe no Tsuna’s wetnurse, and was able to steal back her severed arm and escape, After that, her whereabouts were unknown. though for many years after, occasionally in some town or another, villagers would claim that they had seen Ibaraki doji from time to time

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Rashomon Gate was destroyed in the mid 1900's 

 

There is now a monument in its place too commemorate it...

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More Oni post's coming soon

Oni Myths, Shuten Doji the King of Oni.

 

 

Shuten Doji  was also called the “little drunkard”

He is considered among the most fearsome and evil yokai in all of Japanese folklore even among other Oni. 

However unlike most yokai, Shuten dōji was not born an oni. 

There are many stories about how he came to be, but most of them claim that he was originally a human boy who was born over a thousand years ago either in present-day Shiga or Toyama. 

His mother was a human woman and his father was the great dragon Yamata-no-Orochi. How he changed from boy to demon varies greatly from story to story, but the one popular version goes like this: There was a young boy who was supernaturally strong and abnormally intelligent for his age. 

Everyone around him constantly called him a demon child due to his incredible strength and wit, and he gradually became terribly anti-social and resentful of others. At age six, even his own mother abandoned him. Orphaned, he became an apprentice priest at Mt. Hiei in Kyoto. 

Naturally, he was the strongest and smartest of the young acolytes, and he grew resentful of them as well. He slacked off on his studies as a result and got into fights. He also fell into drinking, which was forbidden to monks; however he could out-drink anyone and everyone who was willing to sit down and drink against him. Because of his fondness for alcohol, he became known as Shuten dōji, “the little drunkard.”

One night there was a festival at the temple, and Shuten dōji showed up very drunk. He put on an oni mask and went around playing pranks on his fellow priests, jumping out from the darkness to scare them and such. At the end of the night, he tried to take off his mask but found he couldn’t — to his horror, it had fused to his body! Ashamed, scared, and scolded by his masters for being drunk, he fled into the mountains where he would no longer have to interact with other humans, whom he saw as weak, foolish, and hypocritical. He lived there on the outskirts of Kyoto for many years, stealing food and alcohol from villagers, and drinking vast quantities of alcohol. His banditry eventually attracted groups of thieves and criminals, who stuck with him loyally and became the foundation for his gang.

 

 

Living in exile, Shuten dōji grew in power and knowledge. He mastered strange, dark magic, and taught it to his thugs. He met another demon child like him, named Ibaraki dōji, who became his chief servant. Over time, the young man and his gang gradually transformed into oni, and eventually he had a whole clan of oni and yokai thugs who prowled the highways, terrorizing the people of Kyoto in a drunken rage. He and his gang eventually settled on Mount Ōe, where, in a dark castle, he plotted to conquer the capital and rule as emperor.

Shuten dōji and his gang rampaged through Kyoto, capturing noble virgins, drinking their blood and eating their organs raw. Finally, a band of heroes led by the legendary warrior Minamoto no Yorimitsu assaulted Shuten dōji’s palace, and with the help of some magical poison, were able to assault the oni band during a bout of heavy drinking. They cut off the drunken Shuten dōji’s head, but even after cutting it off, the head continued to bite at Minamoto no Yorimitsu.

Because the head belonged to an oni and was unholy, it was buried it outside of the city limits, at a mountain pass called Oinosaka. The cup and bottle of poison that Minamoto no Yorimitsu used are said to be kept at Nariai-ji temple in Kyoto.

 

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Modern Imagery

 

Shuten Doji From The Fate series

 

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