Teke-Teke, is a story that happened a long time ago. It is about a young woman who died after falling under a train and being cut in half. In life she was a scary and impressionable girl, and that made her a frequent target of practical jokes. One summer day (cicada season in Japan) those jokes went too far, and her companions, seeing her waiting for the train with lost eyes, sneaked up behind her and threw a cicada on her shoulder, making her jump that it ended up on the railroad tracks, where a speedy Shinkansen (high-speed train) tore it in two. Since that day, she has grieved near the stations, seeking to end pranksters like the ones who precipitated her death, although she does not hesitate to kill innocents as well ... Since then it is said that she haunts the nights, in the empire of the rising sun, dragging the upper half of his body with his hands. Every time she moves, she makes a "teke-teke" sound and cuts people with her weapon.
She is also known as "Knock Knock" (again, the sound she makes when her elbows hit the ground to the floor) or "The girl who moves with her elbows."
They say it carries a sharp saw or scythe and so it catches you. It cuts you in half to be equal to her. It is said to chase children who are out alone at night.
There is a story about a young man leaving school late when she heard a noise behind her. When he looked back, he saw a beautiful girl sitting in a window. The girl had her arms resting on the windowsill and was looking at him. She wondered why she was there, because it was just an all-boys school.
When the girl realized that he was looking at her, she smiled, and suddenly, she jumped out the window and landed on the ground outside. The boy realized with horror that the lower half of his body was missing. She made her way towards him, crawling across the ground making a creepy "tek-tek-tek-tek-tek" sound. The boy was filled with terror and revulsion. He tried to run, but from fear he was frozen and could not move. In a matter of seconds, the girl was on top of him, she took out her scythe and sliced him in half, to make him one of her own.
Very similar to the legend of the Teke Teke, it is the legend of Kashima Reiko, a girl who was also killed by a train, although she was not divided in two but simply lost both her legs. Since then, they say that he has been prowling around the toilets looking for victims, knocking on the door and asking the occupant where his legs are. Kashima hopes that the person will tell her that her legs are at Meishin Station, and that she was the one who told him. If the victim responds improperly, Kashima will savagely rip off her own legs.
From a very different angle, this legend, like that of Kashima Reiko, constitutes a symbolic projection, at the level of oral traditions, of the fear of suffering a particularly terrible death. Hence, both Teke Teke and Kashima are not content to terrorize but seek to make others die in the same way; although these situations, as can be well intuited, are linked to a cultural tendency that has passed through different times and places: the tendency to perceive ghosts as evil entities.
In any case, these simple explanations do not invalidate the possibility that some Japanese train victims were split in half and subsequently sentenced. So if the reader ever goes to Japan, it would be better not to walk alone at night in the train stations, because he could see a party ghost crawling and, if he is near the train tracks, the scare could be enough to make him fall and become one more teke teke.
It is said that children who play in the evening and lose track of time are already in danger of suffering from the presence of this strange entity.
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