More on Sadako and Jaanese folklore
- Sadako has a lot in common with Oiwa, one of the most famous ghosts in Japanese history
- her story involves her husband poising and killing her so he could go and marry another woman.
- To add insult to injury he nailed her to door and dumped her in a river
- Her story is popular in Japanese pop culture
- In a kabuki version she brushes her long black hair—> bloody clumps of hair—> when she sits up her face is horrible disigured
- This is alive to the shot of sadako’s eye being revealed in Ring
- Oiwa is a quintessential Japanese ghost for her desire for revenge
The desire for revenge
- The origin for this can be found in Japanese beliefs about what happens when you die
- Many Japanese don’t practise only one religion
- They believe in many different ideas from a variety of religions
- Most Japanese believe when you die your soul is impure and unsettled
- they believe that for the next seven years you must purify your soul and detach yourself from the cares of the world and achieve some degree of peaceful response
- So Yuurie ghosts are usually spirits, usually of women, who are between the worlds of the living and the dead.
- Some of them died with a strong attachment to something, making it difficult to achieve peace
- Some of these ghosts were hurt terribly by someone before they died and now all they want is revenge
- these kinds of ghosts are called onryou which are the worst kind of yuurie
- In most cases these were women who were done wrong by men.
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