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 evening my dearest Friends, Supporters, Followers and Readers to my humble blog, I thought I would bring you to the Islands of Hawaii one more time for another Urban legend. As I was telling in my last post I would try to find different urban legends/folktales of different countries. Since Hawaii is close to my heart being that my family on my husband side lives there it is fun to do. This one has some truth to the legend & many stories too. Pele is very ancient when it comes to the Hawaiian islands. They say that she is the one that created the islands with her lava. This is another tale that I will look in my archives to see if I have written about the
Goddess Pele for you. Now from what Hawaiian legend says and anyone who is born an raised on the island of Hawaii knows the tale like my husband when I first meet his family in 1990 and then when we went there on our honeymoon to never pick up any of the lava rock or sands to bring home which I have never done. There are other superpositions that you should be aware of too. but I will put that in another post. So in the Hawaiian legend; anyone that removes a piece of lava rock from the Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park will incur the wrath of The Goddess Pele. Supposedly she will cause terrible curses upon you following those that do prompt them to soon abandon the rock or rocks that they had taken from her volcano as a self-preservation.
So can a souvenir that is casually pocketed on a Hawaiian beach bring such misfortune to one person? Though the more skeptical person, they may scoffingly dismiss the notion off as pure hooey, However, there are thousands that have come to believe that by taking the Goddess Pele's volcanic rocks they will fetch with them a curse of impressive proportions. The only way to undo the jinx or curse is to return the purloined items whence they came. It is said that in the legend that the Goddess Pele of Fire & Volcanoes is so angered when her rocks --- which she sees as her children --- are taken from her that she exacts a terrible revenge on the thief or thieves.
So she is especially protective of the volcanic rocks and the sand, items that the tourists almost think nothing about when the mindlessly pocket as mementos of their vacations. After all, who would miss a little old rock?
So the Goddess Pele who lives not far from the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park & not far from all the many hotels that receive a never -ending stream of packages containing sand, shells and most important of all lava rock Pele's children from the guilty-minded vacationers who are intent upon reversing they're sudden downpours of terrible bad luck. Many of these were returned with notes begging forgiveness by the Goddess Pele herself.
So have said please take this sand and put it back somewhere on your island. I have had very bad luck since it came into my life and I am very sorry I took it Please forgive me and I pray that once I send it back where it comes from my bad luck will go away. It seems that thousands of pounds of stolen lava rock have been returned to Hawaiian islands by mail each year because fo former tourist fear that the Goddess Pele will change their lives by here wrath.
So apparently many folks and I believe this too. Not that I have taken any lava rocks but by removing one of the cool looking black lava rocks from Hawaii can really piss off Pele, the
Hawaiian Goddess of fire and volcanoes. It would seem that people from all over the world have pocketed rocks either by accident or on purpose and then blamed their life going to sh*t on the lava stones because of the ancient Hawaiian Goddess Pele who believes that they are all her children and will curse anyone who takes them from her. My advice is to all
Volcanic Gold not worth your life
those couple on their honeymoons just like my -self in 1996 you might want to think twice before getting your hands on those lava rocks or lava black sand. It could really bring you bad luck. So please return the soil or lava rocks if you have been having bad luck. For a few examples from folks that have had Pele's wrath; I will put a few stories for you;
This is one tale of an couple bad luck with the Goddess Pele~
It seems that ever since they took a few items from the land of Hawaii they have nothing but bad luck and lots of medical problems. They want to apologize for taking the items and they are returning them to Hawaii.
What they had done with the lava rock last fall was but the lava rocks on the cast iron chair in their garden, Then in the spring one of the chairs's, mind you that they were cast iron chair's. And in the spring, one of the cast iron chair's leg had just fallen off. That just doesn't happen that often. Apparently that was the least of they problems they had since they had taken the lava rock from Pele. These curses from Pele's are not mild-mannered at all, from the one's who have gone through her curse. Those who have been afflicted by it have felt the pain of her wrath. There is another tale of Pele's wrath's, this one was reported in the Los Angeles Times. It was a sad case of
Timothy Murray. Timothy 32 years old who scooped some of the unusual black sand from the Hawaii Volcanoes in the National Park into a bottle and brought it back with him to his home Florida. Well, from that day everything in his life immediately went into a nosedive; his pet died, his five-year relationship with a girl he was to marry ended and the FBI arrested him in a computer copyright infringement case.
The native Hawaiian view of taking such souvenirs is that it's tantamount to stealing from their Goddess Pele while visiting her home. And the only way to appease her wrath is to return the stolen items.
I HOPE THAT YOU ALL ENJOYED THE LEGEND OF THE GODDESS PELE YOUR FRIEND ALWAYS WENDY
Hello, my dears as I have figure out through the years it seems that you all like the many different Urban Legends Posts that I've done/or at least most of you! This one that I have found is a bit creepy in a weird kinda way.I have found a few images to add to the tale from a very creepy movie series called Final Destination. There was a Tanning bed seen. So I thought it would be fitting to put a few of those images in this post. In this tale, the tanning bed was mistakenly taken that it could generate enough energy to overexpose a person so much from ultraviolet rays that it could actually cook the insides of that person without them even knowing it. Just a foul odor was all they would notice; even after bathing.
This would be all be done not knowing that he/she would only have 2weeks to life after a visit to the doctor.
Now for the tale- Recently my secretary told me the story, sent to me in 1988 from Wisconsin. It was told to her by a girlfriend who heard it from a coworker who said she heard it from a friend who was in the same wedding party as the victim. A young woman was going to be in a wedding party, but she was very unhappy with her pale un-tan body. Since there are only 30min per day limits sets at the tanning salons she decided to visited several of them each day, to increase the speed of her tanning in a shorter period of time. So after several weeks of ding this routine- she had her result however, she wasn't feeling well at all. She also had a very foul odor about her even after taking long baths or showers. After a week she decided to make a appointment with her doctor and after he finished his examination he told the young woman that she had managed to cook her internal organs by over-exposure to the tanning rays. And the foul odor that wouldn't go away, well that was actually the rotting of her organs. The doctor then sadly had to tell her that she only had two weeks to live and would probably would not make it to the wedding. There was good to this tale, in 1994 a student at the West Liberty State College reported that everyday tanning in these tanning beds has been tested to cause skin cancer. So the moral of this story is to stay away from this things. they could kill you.
I do hope you enjoyed the Urban legend my dears so here are a few images from the creepy movie series called Final Destination Tanning bed-
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.
Good evening my dearest Friends, Supporters, Followers and Readers to my humble blog, I thought I would bring you to the Islands of Hawaii one more time for another Urban legend. As I was telling in my last post I would try to find different urban legends/folktales of different countries. Since Hawaii is close to my heart being that my family on my husband side lives there it is fun to do. This one has some truth to the legend & many stories too. Pele is very ancient when it comes to the Hawaiian islands. They say that she is the one that created the islands with her lava. This is another tale that I will look in my archives to see if I have written about the 
Goddess Pele for you. Now from what Hawaiian legend says and anyone who is born an raised on the island of Hawaii knows the tale like my husband when I first meet his family in 1990 and then when we went there on our honeymoon to never pick up any of the lava rock or sands to bring home which I have never done. There are other superpositions that you should be aware of too. but I will put that in another post. So in the Hawaiian legend; anyone that removes a piece of lava rock from the Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park will incur the wrath of The Goddess Pele. Supposedly she will cause terrible curses upon you following those that do prompt them to soon abandon the rock or rocks that they had taken from her volcano as a self-preservation.
So have said please take this sand and put it back somewhere on your island. I have had very bad luck since it came into my life and I am very sorry I took it Please forgive me and I pray that once I send it back where it comes from my bad luck will go away. It seems that thousands of pounds of stolen lava rock have been returned to Hawaiian islands by mail each year because fo former tourist fear that the Goddess Pele will change their lives by here wrath.
I HOPE THAT YOU ALL
So she is especially protective of the volcanic rocks and the sand, items that the tourists almost think nothing about when the mindlessly pocket as mementos of their vacations. After all, who would miss a little old rock?
Hawaiian Goddess of fire and volcanoes. It would seem that people from all over the world have pocketed rocks either by accident or on purpose and then blamed their life going to sh*t on the lava stones because of the ancient Hawaiian Goddess Pele who believes that they are all her children and will curse anyone who takes them from her. My advice is to all
Timothy Murray. Timothy 32 years old who scooped some of the unusual black sand from the Hawaii Volcanoes in the National Park into a bottle and brought it back with him to his home Florida. Well, from that day everything in his life immediately went into a nosedive; his pet died, his five-year relationship with a girl he was to marry ended and the FBI arrested him in a computer copyright infringement case. 
