1979年日本孩子放学都结伴回家，因为“裂口女”

Japan has a legend called the "Slit-Mouthed Woman," which caused a nationwide sensation around 1979.

The story goes like this: a young woman wearing a large surgical mask stops a lone child on the road at dusk and asks, "Am I beautiful?" If you say yes, she removes her mask to reveal a mouth slit from ear to ear, then asks again, "How about now?" If you say no, she kills you; if you say yes, she cuts your mouth to match hers.

The tale is said to have first spread from the Gifu region, and by the spring and summer of 1979, it had spread all over Japan. Elementary school students were afraid to walk home alone; many schools had children go home in groups, and in some places, the police patrolled specifically during school dismissal times. Some parents even called the police to report that their children had been stopped on the street. Various "countermeasures" circulated among children—for example, the word "hair pomade," which she was said to fear; others suggested throwing candy or saying "so-so," leaving her unable to respond. According to the legend, she runs faster than a car, covering 100 meters in just a few seconds.

Later, people tried to investigate but could never find the "first person to see her," though the route of the rumor could be traced: from school to school, passed by word of mouth among children, county by county. Some scholars say that during those years, adults had an inexpressible unease about women undergoing plastic surgery, wearing masks, and going out at night, and the story absorbed all of these anxieties.

Later still, she became one of Japan's most famous yokai, featured in countless films, and even Korea and China developed their own versions. But the children who truly clutched their schoolbag straps and ran all the way home from school back then are now in their forties and fifties.

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