Just because you can't see the magical creatures of the world doesn't mean there aren't there. They have always' been.That's where the magic is! Right in front of your Eyes...
Good morning my dearest friends, followers, supporters and readers. As to my many posts on urban legends & to how much it seems you all find them to be fascinating to read. I do try to find the very best ones. I hope this is another fun one to read too.
The tale starts...With a man eating at a Chinese restaurant and had bitten into something to hard to chew or shallow. Being a kind soul & rather not causing a scene, he decided to get his napkin and removed the offensive morsel of food wrapped in the napkin. After that he quietly put it into his jacket pocket, finished the rest of his dinner & the tough morsel that was put in his jacket was all but forgotten. Well, this was until one afternoon when his friendly neighborhood Dry cleaner, who was accompanied by two police officers came to his door. They produced his Jacket that he had dry clean at his friendly dry cleaner a couple day a go. The police asked him to identify his jacket. He easily did so, then he asked, 'What seems to be the problem Officer?' One of the police officers showed the man the evidence bag in which was the shriveled first two joints of a human forefinger. The Officer then told the man it had been found wrapped in a napkin in your jacket pocket.
At this point the man was very concern and a bit sick knowing that that was in his mouth a few weeks ago. Also that he was in trouble with the law too! At that moment the officer demanded, 'Where's the rest of the Body?' All the man could do is take his to the Restaurant where he ended up with that first two joints of a human forefinger on his plate and gave them also directions to the Chinese Restaurant. (note: this is could happen to any type of restaurant it just happen to be Chinese and its just a urban legend...)
As they got closer the man asked if he should be concern about his health, but the police didn't say anything till they got to the place. As the tale ends;
There is Good news/Bad news... The Good News was the cook at the restaurant had only lost the finger, that ended up on the gentleman plate. The Bad News was an Pathologists had already did a report on the finger, that ended up on the gentleman plate then in his mouth chewing on it a bit. HAD LEPROUS!
Moral of the story- Never keep chewing on something too hard or that taste yuck. And always tell the owners of what ever restaurant you happen to be in. It could cost your life!
Well, I hope that you all enjoyed the tale I love you all very much
Good evening my dear friends & Followers, I found another interesting Urban Legend that you might like, about a Rug Shopper.
How the legend tale is set, is basically a young woman was rummaging through a pile of expensive rugs at a ritzy furniture store when she was attacked by a deadly Cobra, that she was looking at. She lived in England where the expensive ritzy furniture store was. She was rushed to a London hospital after the enraged reptile sank its huge fangs into her arm. The woman survived the attack from the bite of the Cobra after spending several days in the hospital of London's finest and receiving very painful treatments to remove the poison from her body. It was said that the store manager David Ross figured that the huge snake had stowed away in the rugs when they were being shipped from India and Pakistan. These places have large problems with these poison dangers snakes slipping into the rugs during the shipping periods of docks to ship.
There was another incident in November of 1989. It was a rumor in Springfield Illinois when a woman slipped on a coat in a local department store and felt a jab in one of her arms. She assumes she was just stuck by a sewing pin. Later on in the day she felt more pain in her arm. She also detected a deep redness in the area where she felt the poke early in the day. So she decides to go to the hospital for treatment. Once she arrives at the hospital the medics discover she was bitten by a snake. So the local police were sent to the store where she was bitten. A large search was underway of the coat inventory to find the snake within all those coats. Within a short time, the snake turns up in a sleeve lining of the coat the woman had tried on early that day. It was a foreign product and it was a very exotic snake that had slipped during the shipment before it left the orient. This is just one of many tales of this legend. Often these stories have just, happen in discount stores in the urban legends. However, not always is this the case as I have stated above. There is one store that was mentioned quite often that is a huge chain ---Kmart---in the 80's. This company maintained at its Troy, Michigan headquarters that there was a 'snake-file' containing hundreds of inquiries. Some of these inquiries were; An electric blanket---An woman had bought a electric blanket and felt a prick one cold night while using it. She thinks it's just a loose wire. So she still plugs the in anyway. The warmth coming from the blanket cause the snake that once was in there eggs to hatch. How the woman had lots of tiny snakes in her blanket... That is just one of many Tales.
Well, I found another legend~
Coat of Arms~
This Urban legend which began in the late 1960's of a woman bitten fatally by a snake found in the pocket of her new winter coat as called, 'snake hidden in most anything tale of vipe in a winter coat'. It seems that this legend of the late 60's has moved all the to 1991 and at the time it seems the legend was strongly associated with Burlington Coat Factory, a new Jersey firm with stores across the US. Burlington Coat Factory is well known for for its many clothiers manufactures of outerwear and winter coats that were always offered at discount in most clothing stores. Burlington Coat Factory is one of the few to specialize almost exclusively in this type of items of apparel. I myself have gone to the Burlington Coat Factory many a times for myself, for my husband and for my son too, but we have never had any problems thank goodness. It's seems that the Burlington Coat Factory involving any type of winter coat will naturally gravitate towards this huge company. The impression that the coats are less expensive at Burlington adds to the believability of the legend to sell them cheap. This
leads the idea that Burlington Firms must be importing most of all its inventory from third world countries where the most venomuos snakes are slithering into the products before they are put on the ships.
Burlington's Factory's said they have been looking for that mythical snake for a number of years and they have been constantly being asked about this Legend. According to its people that have work for them for many years, the story could never come true in that chain of Stores... The coats don't get to the consumer fast enough for any lurking snakes [assuming there were any] to still be part of the deal. Even the spokesman at the chain's headquarters of Burlington had said,'If a snake got into a distribution center for a few months before it's sent to the stores. Are you going to tell me, it will be able to survive all that time up a sleeve or pocket?'.
However, It seems that the spokeman of Burlington Coat Factory center would eat his words...
However, in 1991 there was a lawsuit popped up in Pennsylvania do to a couple's mattress. Shortly after they had bought the mattress in May of 1988, the couple noticed unusual movements in their bed that could be a living creature. The couple exchanged the mattress for another, but again they noticed the same odd movements in their bed which was quite unnerving. After four months of this, they took the mattress to a lab, where workers found what was left of a 26-inch ribbon snake.
Rainbow Snake
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:Virginia Wildlife Action Plan Rating Tier IV- Moderate Conservation Need - The species may be rare in parts of its range, particularly on the periphery. Populations of these species have demonstrated a significant declining trend or one is suspected which, if continued, is likely to qualify this species for a higher tier in the foreseeable future. Long-term planning is necessary to stabilize or increase populations.
COLORATION and PATTERN:iridescent with 3 red stripes on a black dorsum; middorsal stripe extends only to base of tail, whereas the lateral stripes on scale row 6 (counting from the ventrals on each side) extend onto dorsum of the tail; coloration below the 6th scale row is usually black; venter yellow with 2 primary rows of black spots - there may be a shorter, 3rd midventral row in some specimens; dorsum of head black to slate blue with some of the scales edged in red, forming an artistic pattern; throat, chin, infralabials, and supralabials yellow; each supralabial and some of the infralabials and chin shields have distinct black spots; yellow and red coloration fades to white in preservative. These are stout, cylindrical snakes with no difference in the width of the head and neck. The tail has a sharp spine.
SEXUAL DIMORPHISM:Sexual dimorphism is exhibited in size, pattern, and scutellation. Adult females reach longer snout vent lengths (781-1518 mm, avg. = 1051.1+/-220.9, n=16) than males (722-730 mm, avg. = 726, n=2). Sexual dimorphism index is 1.45. However, tail length/total length ratio in males is higher (17.0-17.4%, avg. = 17.2, n=2) than in females (10.5-15.8%, avg. = 12.3+/-1.3%, n=16). Females have a higher number of ventrals (avg. - 170.8+/-2.3, 167-175, n=31) than males (159.2+/-1.5, 157-161, n=6). Counts of ventrals + subcaudals for males (204-210 avg. = 208.8+/-3.0, n=28). The midventral spots are usually more distinct in males than in females.*10760* Richmond reported that hatchlings from New Kent Co. were sexually dimorphic in number of ventrals (females 170-175, avg. = 172.0+/-1.2, n=39;; males 155-162, avg. = 159.3+/-1.5, n=46) and number of subcaudals (females 35-42, avg. = 37.6+/-1.3; males 44-49, avg. = 46.5+/-1.0) and ventrals + subcaudals (females 207-215, avg. = 209.7+/-1.6; males 202-210, avg. = 205.8+/-1.8). The midventral row of black spots is more pronounced in male hatchlings than females. However, these are statistical differences and cannot be used to assign gender to single individuals.
JUVENILES:Juveniles are colored and patterned as adults. Hatchlings averaged 196.3+/-3.0 mm SVL (170-222, n=81), 231.3 +/-13.6 mm total length (197-270, n=81),and 5.9+/-1.1 g body mass (3.6-8.7, n=68).*10760* Confusing Species: No other Virginia snake is as multicolored as F. erytogramma. Mud snakes (F. abacura) have stout bodies and are shiny, but are uniformly black dorsally and red ventrally with some overlap on the sides.
GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION:There is no geographic variation in pattern, color, or scutellation in Va.*10760* Reproduction: This species lays up to 52 eggs in an underground cavity in sandy soil, usually during July. The leathery white eggs are deposited from to 18 inches below the surface in exposed, dry, sandy fields.*1006* Females remain with their eggs in the nest, presumably to confer some protection against predation.*10760* The young hatch in the fall and overwinter on land, probably in a burrow near the nest, and move overland to an aquatic area in early spring. The males may reach sexual maturity by the end of their second or the beginning of their third year. The female probably reach maturity by the end of the third year, possibly the second
BEHAVIOR:These snakes are both aquatic and burrowers. They are exellent swimmers but usually prowl along stream or swamp bottoms. At times they burrow into muck or mud. They have been found in dry sand at depths of up to 10 feet. The young have been found beneath boards logs and other debris. They may use their sharp tiped tail to probe. They have no definite period of hibernation since active specimens have been reported during every month. The main food of this species is eels. After catching an eel the snake usually climbs out of the water where the prey is swallowed head first. They may often rest with the tail dangling from its mouth
AQUATIC/TERRESTRIAL ASSOCIATIONS:This species is preyed on by aquatic turtles, raccoons, opossums, skunks, kingsnakes and hawks *1006*. Nothing is known of the population ecology of this species anywhere in its range. Richmond plowed up 20 rainbow snakes in a 10 ac. field on one day in New Kent Co. Rainbow snakes will not bite, but will thrash about vigorously when picked up and attempt to scratch or poke the handler with the spine on the tail (it will not pierce the skin). These snakes appear to be oblivious to
This link is most of the artical of the rainbow snake that I got the info, but there is a little more that I didn't include...
The Couple after going through two mattress with two rainbow
snakes or more asked for 20,000$ in damages.
Another Snake int the product was in September of 2003,
this was by Douglas Hatchett of Bangs Texas. It was while he
was shopping for shoes in a Wal-Mart. Douglas claimed to have been
bitten by a rattlesnake which had been concealed behind a shoebox
on a shelf in the shore of Wal-Mart. The victim had said he
stomped the snake to death.
I think this post tells most of our fear of foreign contamination of
snakes and other poison creatures. The snake legend has always
come from outside the US, even though America slso has both
venomous vipers and the textile industry. Just as in the
Mexican Pet and the sider-filled shaking cactus legends, something
broght in form a foreign land conceals untold dangers.
Walmart shopper bitten by Rattlesnake that he ~mistook for a stick~
Mr. Craig & Mica Craig at hosptial after his 6 bags of anti venom
A man who said he was reaching down to pick up a stick lying in the
gardening aisle of a Walmart store was shocked to discover that it was
actually a rattle snake, which promptly bit him. Mica Craig says
he was shopping in the outdoor garden department of the Lewiston,
Idaho, on a Saturday afternoon.
The 47year old said the reptile dug its fangs into his hand and
that is when screamed in pain shook the snake loose and
The Rattle Snake the Bit Mr. Craig
stomped it to death. It seems that a good bystander took Mr.
Craig to St. Joseph's hospital, where he was released after a doctor
had examied his hand saying there were no signs that the snake had
released any venom in his had. However, by the time Mr Craig returned to his home in Clarkston, Washington he told the paper,
'The Lewiston Tribune' that his hand had grown to the size of a
cantaloupe. So Craig returned to the hospital, and was treated with
six bags of anti-venom for the Rattlesnake. In addition, he was told that
his hand may be permanently disfigured.
Mr Craig told the Tribune; They got all the poison out of me but
they don't know how bad the muscle damage will be!
He said the doctors expect him to remain hospitalised until for
quite a few days. Mr. Craig said that he had spoken to officials at
the Walmart store and claimed they told him the snake that bit him
was not the first they had discovered. When reached by the
Tribune , a manager at the store Wal-Mart would not confirm or
deny that the episode took place. Mr. Craig told the paper that he has
always liked Walmart, but the romance may be over after this incident.
There are dozens of species of rattle snakes, which are the largest
of all in venomous snakes in the US according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers.
While rattlers are behind the most common snakebite
injuries, they are rarely fatal if treated quickly.
The Wal*Mart where a Mr. Craig was bitten by a Rattle snake in the Garden area.
World's deadlies snake discovered in Indian shipping container
after arriving at Essex dock
Deadly Saw-scaled vaper of India
They can grow up to three feet long and have oblique scales which rub against each other to produce a hissing sound which is supposed to warn potential predators. They live all over the world in dry
savannas, including Africa, Asia and India.
They have a stout body with a pear-shaped head.
The reptiles tend to hunt at night and eat
mammals, birds, snakes and lizards.
The saw-scaled viper is the smallest member of the Big Four snakes which are responsible for causing the most snakebite cases and deaths.
They tend to bite their victims in the dark as they're nocturnal.
Bites result in bleeding anywhere in the body, including a brain haemorrage which can occur a few days after a bite.
A lethal dose of venom is 3-5mg and
women produce more venom than males.
Saw-Scaled Vaper arriving at Essex Dock
For the last of my Urban Legend of the Snake Stowaway's
there is the deadly snake Saw-scaled vapers that are being found.
Wildlife volunteers had the shock of their lives when they were called
to resue a slipery stowaway and discovered it was the world's deadlies snake. What the Volunteers found from the South Essex
Wildlife hosptial was a Saw-scaled viper curled up in the corner of a
gaint shipping container that had arrived at Tibury Docks from India.
The Saw-scaled vipers are small but have an irritable and
aggressive nature and their lethal venom makes them very dangerous to humans. The snake is believed to be a stowaway from INdia and is at a
wildlife hospital awaiting to be re-homed.
Experts believe they[saw-scaled vipers] are responsible for more humans death than all other snake species combined as they
tend to live in more populated areas.
Hospital founder Sue Schwar said,
"We routinely handle injured and uncooperative wildlife
everyday of the week, but I'm glad it's rare to get one of these critters.'
She added, 'They are very dangerous snakes to keep. It's like having a
loaded gun with these kinda snakes. Their venom isn't the most
poisonous but because they live in highly populated areas
where they tend to bite more people. That's why they're
the most deadly. I think the guys at the company wanted it taken
away pretty quickly as it's a risk to their staff.'
She had also said that the reptile expert Steve Mitchell managed
to scoop up the snake before it could it slither away.
Steve knew straight away what it was, although it's not a very
big snake they move like lightning and can strike pretty quickly.
These snakes can live in the enousmous containers for
several weeks and still be in good health.
Note; The vipers are small but have an aggressive nature and
their lethal venom makes them even more dangerous
They live all over the world in dry savannas, including Africa,
Asia and India and have a stout body with a pear-shaped head.
Essex: A general view of Tilbury Docks
where the containers arrived in the UK. This is where
the saw-scaled vipers arrive from all over the world.
Mostly area's of the dry savannas, africa, asia, india and
so many other area's around the world. It is also the place
where many of the snakes await to be re-homed once again.
Good Moring my dears, I hope that you all are doing well. I have sunshine today so I have been spending a lot of time in my garden but I will keep in touch with you all my dear friends, followers, supporters and readers too. For today I am going to one of my favorite legends and urban legends of sorts in the land of Japan/China. I hope you will find it interesting my dears WENDY... The Jakotsu Baba - is basically an legend of the 'Old Snake Bone Woman' in Japanese/Chinese folklore. It is so ancient that one doesn't know which culture it originally comes from. So this is how the tale goes; If you happen to be wondering through the woods at night and stumble
upon something that looks like a carved stone stamped with the symbol of the snake -RUN!!!
It could be nothing... Or you could have stumbled across the hidden grave of the long-dead Jako Emon,which means that you are seconds away from an encounter with his wife, the 'Old Snake Bone Woman' called Jakotsu Baba. So you all might be curious - What is the Jakotsu Baba?
Well, in Japanese/Chinese folklore the 'Old Snake-Bone Woman's kanji reads exactly that! 蛇-ja-snake + 骨-kotsu-bone + 婆-baba-old woman. It really depends on the region and the dialect that you happen to be in Japan too! So there are other names too! Known as Jagoba- the 'Five-Snake Woman: 蛇-ja-snake + 五-go-five + 婆-baba-old woman. I hope this will give you a little idea of the culture and the writings too.
Also the Jakotsu Baba would seem to origin in Toriyama Sekiens Konjaku Hyakki Shui- 今昔百鬼拾遺, which means in English - [Supplement to a Hundred Demons from the Present and Past]. As it is shown in the illustration to the left as an old woman with her body is wrapped in Snakes. It is said that 'Toriyama Sekiens Konjaku Hyakki Shui wrote: 'There is an old woman from in northern Funkan-koku -China. In her right hand she holds a large blue snake and in her left hand a red one. The people of this country call her the Jakotsu Baba - The Old Snake-Bone Woman. They say she is the wife of Jakoemon [Five-Snake Emon] and that she holds vigil over the family tombs. She is sometimes called the Jagoba-the Five -Snake Woman-depending on the dialect of the region' So now that you know a little about the Jakotsu Baba I thought we should go over her Origins.
As I found out about this legend of the Old Snake Bone Woman or Jakotsu Baba I found that little is known about her origins apart from what Toriyama had wrote in his Konjaku Hyakki Shui. It is not known if Konjaku had invented or created the character centuries ago - or if he collected the legend from somewhere or from someone. However, it would seem that Jakotsu Baba doesn't appear in any prior collections in either China or Japan. Kinda makes you wonder but China & Japan are very ancient country's with very long ancient past so one could never tell? There are a few other names that are mentioned by Toriyama - these are - [The Snake Family-云蛇塚- Sadly it would seem that the 'Old Snake-Bone Woman's Husband Jako Emon has never been found in any type of text of either Japanese or Chinese. Nor has either of their tombs been discovered. However, all of these peculiar and particular details give more flavor to this tale. It would seem that the area of Funkan-koku is a region particularly touch by the supernatural & renowned for its mediums and fortune tellers too. Also the Yokai Books from the Showa period expanded on the Jakotsu Baba and moved her mysterious grave to Japan. If your curious about the Showa period, it is said that Jako Emon once was a human, but when he died the sign of a snake was stamped onto his gravestone, hence he became wife of the 'Old Snake Bone Woman' called Jakotsu Baba. To stand eternity guarding over his grave and his wife transformed into a yokai with a blue snake slithering into her right hand and a red snake into her left. She world attack anyone who came too close to her husbands grave. It is said that the Jakotsu Baba doesn't appear often in Japanese folklore.
I thought since we are into the new year I would start with a few legendary legends such as Oldfather Time. Before the holidays, I got lots of feedback on urban legends so I thought I would start with the Father Time/Father Christmas legend. It is said that in the ancient times of the Romans they would celebrate Saturnalia which was a week-long harvest festival in December to honor Saturn. It was likely that the festival was influenced by the Christian people and their traditions, the year 354AD, when Pope Liberius ordered that December, 25 be observed as the birthday of Christ. The Pope Liberius then cited
Father Christmas
the precedent of Saturnalia, which probably in the hope that the new holiday would divert attention from the pagan revelry. This is why the images of Father Time & Father Christmas plus the passing of the old year and the coming of the new have all come to be associated with one another over the centuries. Here's to the bright New year And a fond farewell to the old; Here's to the things that are yet to come And to the memories that we hold. -Anonymous- So what better way to start the new year with a bit of history, trivia, myth, murder, incest and intrigue, Well that is what some say with the legend of Oldfather time--Father Time--Old Man Time--Aka Old Man Time--Father Christmas.
It is usually said that Father time is depicted as an elderly bearded man, dressed in a robe, carrying a scythe and an hourglass or other timekeeping devices. Sometimes he is pictured with an infant or young child to symbolize the coming of the new year! However, there are over ways that Father time has been depicted too. Have you noticed who he resembles? Well, I think the Grim Reaper is one to synonymous with death, which is sometimes depicted as a figure in its own right. Father Time, Old Man Time, and the Grim Reaper and Death the same person?
So the question is?
If you want to know where Father Time originates are it is from Greek Mythology. The 2 greek gods with the similar names Cronus -- Chronos
1-Cronus was one of the descendants of Gaia, the earth, and Uranus, the sky, With his siblings they made up a collection of deities known as the Titans. Cronus being the youngest and also their leader. Cronus envied the power of his father Uranus and with the connivance of this mother Gaia, he ambushed Uranus. Using a sickle made and provided by Gaia, he castrated Uranus and threw his testicles into the sea. Thereafter Cronus ruled with his sister Rhea as king and queen. Appropriately, he was and is usually depicted with a sickle in his hand. The period of his rule is known as the Golden Age. The festival of Kronia was held in his honor and to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that he was also the patron saint to the harvest. Cronus had been told by Gaia and Uranus that he would be overcome by his own son. To stop this happening as soon as rhea gave birth to a child, Cronus pre-empted the prophecy by swallowing his unborn children. By the time she was due to give birth to child number 6 Rhea had had enough, She enlisted the aid of her mother in law Gaia and together they hid the sixth child in a cave, where he was raised either by a goat or by Gaia depending upon which version you wish to believe. Cronus was given a stone to disguised as the baby and swallowed that in the belief that it was his son. The baby became the God Zeus. When he grew to the God Zeus he used an emetic to force Cronus to disgorge as the babies he had eaten, who had remained alive. The war that followed saw Zeus victorious with Cronus being imprisoned for eternity. 2-Chronos was a very different entity to that all around good guy, Cronus. Long before Cronus, before Gaia and before Uranus, the universe was unformed, a mass in the shape of an egg. In addition to the cosmic egg, there were also the primordial hoods Ananke and Chronos, sometimes written as Khronos. Ananke was the primeval goddess of inevitability and necessity and had emerged fully formed at the beginning of time. She had a serpent's form. Chronos was the time god, also, serpentine in form but with three heads, that of man, a bull, and a lion. Chronos and Ananke wrapped the egg in their coils and squeezed, shattering the egg and thereby creating the earth, sea, and air. Chronos and Ananke remain forever entwined within the universe so created, being the forces of fate and time. The younger gods then created are said to be controlled by them. An alternative version holds that Chronos impregnated Ananke who then laid the cosmic egg. Eros hatched from the egg and created Chaos from which came Gaia Uranus, Tartarus the abyss and so on. Whereas Cronus, the evil guy, was considered by the Greeks to be a tempestuous force of the chaos and disorder, Chronos, the God of time controls the past, present, and future of everything. Although most frequently depicted as a young man, Chronos was sometimes pictured as an old wise man with a long white/gray beard. His name in modern Greek means 'YEAR' and his name has given rise to such words as chronometer, chronology, chronic, anachronism and chronicle.bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2010/12/father-time.html www.novareinna.com/festive/oft.html www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2006/10/a-brief-history-of-father-time.html is where I found this article have a look if you like;
Father Time; Similarity of the names Cronus and Chronos are believed to have resulted in a blurring of the distinction between the two, the confusion causing the time god to become depicted as an old man with a scythe. The sickle used by Cronus and Saturn has become symbolic not of the castration of one's own father but of the unrelenting flow to time. It was the sickle or scythe which had emasculated Uranus/Saturn thereby enabling the next
generation to rule the cycle of birth-life-death. Sometimes Father Time is depicted with an hour glass, symbolizing the flow of time. Time's elderly body and long, white beard are reminders that time itself is a devourer of all things. Nothing can escape time. Nonetheless, time also gives serenity, experience, and wisdom.
The downward flow of the sand in the hourglass and the loss of the body's vitality is balanced by the upward flow of the spirit the increase of wisdom of the spirit and the mind. The young bull and the old bull of words
The Grim Reaper: From the 15th century onwards, Death has been depicted as a
skeletal figure that carried a large scythe and clothed in a black cloak with a hood. He has also been termed as the Angel of Death, Stemming from the Bible too. The image of the Grim Reaper, aka Death, comes directly from the combined image of Chronos and Cronus.
The Grim Reaper is sometimes depicted as being accompanied by a crow too.
It may be that in ancient Greek culture the crow was somehow associated with death, perhaps because crow pecked at the corpse on the battlefields. It is also true that the greek word for crow means 'Corone' sounds much like Cronus and Chronos. By the Middle ages, there were many engravings of the Grim Reaper which depict a skeletal
IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, CULTURAL MEMORIES OF THE CIVIL WAR HAVE SPARKED NUMEROUS URBAN LEGENDS. ONE OF THE CREEPIEST IS IN THE CENTER AROUND PATTERSON ROAD, LOCATED NEAR HIGHWAY SIX; Claims, depending on whom you are talking too that the road is haunted. However,
everyone agrees that the ghosts involved were Civil War soldiers. Why? Because, as we all know, every bit of land someone from that period
walked across has become a ghostly hot spot for the spirits of the soldiers of the CIVIL WAR. Believers of the ghosts of the Patterson Road say that if you go into the Langham Creek Bridge on Patterson late at night and park your car with the lights off, you will hear tapping sounds or see a white mist that will surround your car. There are even more skeptical locals that will point out that parking your car with your lights off on a busy bridge is a good way to become a ghost yourself. The image that I have is one that I found that is what the folks have seen on the Patterson Road and the spirits of the soldiers of the Civil War. As you can see the white mist surrounds them and they very much look like they come from that period where so many souls were killed by South/North. I hope you find this small post interesting my dears friends and followers love you all very much YOUR WENDY.
Good evening my dearest friends&followers and welcome to my
humble blog once again. I thought since you all enjoyed the legend of the Sandman and many of my other Urban legends I would put a few more in for the last month of the coming new year. I was watching T.V. today with my beloved husband and they were talking about some of the Japanese folklore and how some are true and some or just folklore. For me, I really don't know. However, I find them very interesting. The Icicle Woman is called the Tsurara Onna.
It is said that the Japanese Icicle woman could be either naughty or nice? Loving or Lethal? in the Japanese Folklore. If these stories are true, the story of the Icicle woman/Tsurara Onna is a warning to the men of Japan if you fashion a woman out of an icicle, even when yu pour your entire heart into it, don't be surprised if she turns out to be a cold-blooded soul.
ICICLE WOMAN
IN HER BEAUTIFUL FORM
First I should explain what the Icicle woman of the Japanese folklore does or mean? In all the Tsurara Onna tales/Icicle Woman will start out the same way---a lonely man will gaze out of his window during the cold snowy winter, and will marvel at the beauty of an icicle hanging from his eaves of his home. As he stares deeply into the crystal-like structure, he wishes he could meet a beautiful woman just like the Icicle, to ease the pains of his loneliness. Well, just like magick a woman appears fitting his extra description the very next day. The woman appears at the lonely man's door seeking refuge from a massive and sudden snow storm. Well, as the tale goes the lonely man lets the beautiful woman in his home not knowing what is in store for him & they fall in love. The woman decides to never leave, and the two become husband and wife. In old ancient Japan, no ceremony was necessary. So they decided to marry.
ICICLE WOMAN ON THE MOUNTAIN
Well, life was good---as least for a little while. The man's new wife was quite attentive, very loving & everything he could ever hope for.However, after a while things did go wrong, because there is rarely a Happily ever after in Japanese Folklore. In Japanese folklore when you are dealing with snow monsters it never ends nice or happy. There are two different versions of this tale it just depends on which regions of Japan you happen to live. The first version of Icicle Woman Folktale~
It seems there was one thing that worried the man about his wife, he couldn't help notice that his new bride never bathes, even on the most chilly of nights. The man started to worry about her health---surely she will get sick if she doesn't warm herself in a warm bath? Not to mention cleanliness. Over the years, he tries to entice her to use the bath & he also assured her she should feel shy or ashamed.
Well, after much talk, his wife then demurs, but eventually she can no longer refuse her husband.
After he prepares a nice warming bathe for her, he keeps himself busy around the house so she can enjoy a nice good soak. Well, hours & hours pass & the man becomes worried about his wife. He thinks perhaps she has fallen asleep in the bath? So he goes into the back of the house to check on her & finds the tub to be empty, with only frozen shards of shattered icicles laying around the perimeter of the bath. These too slowly had melt away.
[Some say what had happened was this; the woman never went into the bath, but into the kitchen to heat up some hot sake for her husband. After a long wait, he goes to the kitchen to find the shattered icicle shards]. Second Version of the Icicle Woman of Japanese ~The Frozen Dagger of Hate~
Well, this version is a bit more harsh yu could say... In this tale as some say 'The Frozen Dagger of Hate'. The Icicle Woman who had become his wife, he doesn't coax his wife into the bath or ask her to retrieve hot sake for him. Instead, what happens they get through winter in perfect bliss. however as spring comes and the temperatures warms, the man has notices his wife is getting anxious for some odd reason. One day the man woke up and his wife was gone, the door of their house was standing wide open and the last of winter winds was blowing through. The husband was heartbroken, but he assumed his wife has left him after using him for shelter through the winter. So he moves on with his life and meets a new woman and falls in love. Come summer, he moves his new wife into his house, They pass the months very happily until winter comes again.
When the world froze over again, the man notices a particularly large Icicle forming from the eaves of his house. Fascinated by it, he goes outside for a better look. Within minutes, he sees his former wife, lived that she has been replaced with another woman.
Inside the home, his new wife hears her husband shriek in agony. She then rushed outside and found him dead, with an large icicle piercing from his head through his eyeball.
Well my dears friends & followers that
are the tale of the Icicle woman of the
Japanese folktale the nice and not so nice version
Good morning my dearest Followers, Friends, & Readers. HAPPY FOOLS DAY!
Well, for todays post I thought I would do an Urban Legend that is actually True! I'm not really good with pranks, so I hope that you all enjoy the tale. This one is actually True. It's called 'Neiman Marcus Cookies' and I found it in my book called 'The Colossal Book of Legends. From what the woman had said, in just the first couple of lines, I just had to tell her story.
This is the story;
'My daughter & I had just finished a salad at Neiman Marcus Cookies Cafe in Dallas & decided to have a small dessert. Because both of us are such cookie lovers. We decide to try the 'Neiman Marcus Cookie." It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe & the waitress said with a small frown, "I'm afraid not'. Well, would you let me buy the recipe? With a cute smile, the waitress said, yes. I asked how much? The waitress responded, "only two fifty'. I said great deal & just added it to my tab. Well, thirty days later, she received her visa statement from Neiman Marcus and her bill was $285.00. She had to look at the bill twice, then remembered that she had only spent 9.95$ for two salads and about $20.00 for a scarf. She glanced at the bottom of the statement and it said, "COOKIE RECIPE $250.00.
She said that was outrageous!
She called Neiman's accounting Dept and told them the waitress said 'two-fifty dollars to her'.
She asked if there was anyone there possible to interpret the phrase 'only two fifty?' Sadly Neiman Marcus refused to budge on the matter. They would not refund her money, because according to them, 'What the waitress told her is not our problem. You have already seen the recipe so we absolutely will not refund your money at this point.
She said, Okay, You folks got my $250. Now I'm going to have fun. She told the Neimans Accounting Dept, she was going to see to it that every cookie lover in the United States with an email account has a $250 Cookie Recipe from Neiman-Marcus for FREE! NOTE AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS TRUE URBAN LEGEN SHE SAID- 'THIS IS TRUE -PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ AND PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON YOU KNOW! It seems that they replied, 'I wished you wouldn't do this! However, the woman that Neiman Marcus wouldn't refund the $250.00 relied Well, you should have thought of that before! So there it is & and here is the Recipe to that could be halved- Neiman Marcus cookies Recipe-
2-cups butter
4-cups flour
2-tsp. Soda (club soda)
2-cups sugar
5-cups blended oatmeal...
24-oz. Chocolate chips
3-cups chopped nuts (your choice)
2-cups brown sugar
1-tsp salt
1-8 oz Hershey Bar graded
4-eggs
2-tsp baking powder
2-tsp van.
Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Then cream the butter and both sugars. Add 4 eggs and Vanilla. Then mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and soda. Add chocolate chips, Hershey bar and nuts. Roll into small balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10min at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies
True story urban legend - True Recipe Enjoy.
Good morning my dearest friends, followers, supporters and readers. As to my many posts on urban legends & to how much it seems you all find them to be fascinating to read. I do try to find the very best ones. I hope this is another fun one to read too. 
