"Tomino's Hell": A 1919 Poem Said to Bring Bad Luck If Read Aloud

Japan has a very short poem called "Tomino's Hell," written by Yaso Saijo and included in a 1919 collection. It is a poem very much like a nursery rhyme, telling the story of a boy named Tomino who, after dying, is sent to hell, where there are blood pools and mountains of needles everywhere.

The poem begins with the sister vomiting blood and the younger sister vomiting fire, while the cute Tomino vomits jewels. Below, it describes him walking into hell step by step, passing through one terrifying place after another: a dark forest, blood pools, mountains of needles.

Later, people on the internet claimed that this poem cannot be read aloud, and that reading it aloud will cause bad things to happen. There are many versions of what specifically happens: some say you will get sick, some say you will see ghosts, and some say that if you read to the final stanza, a person will appear beside you.

No one can say for sure where this claim originated.

Yaso Saijo himself was a very famous poet who later wrote many popular song lyrics, including "Tokyo March," and was a professor at Waseda University in his later years; no curse has been heard of.

The full text of this poem can now be found online, and many people have tried reading it; according to them, nothing happened. Some feel that it is the simple sounds in the poem, uttered one word at a time, that are the most frightening.

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