伊豆的净莲瀑布，有人说那里的水潭里住着蜘蛛精

On the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka, Japan, there is a waterfall called the Joren Falls. It is more than twenty meters high, with water cascading down a single sheer black rock face into a deep pool below, surrounded by trees. People visiting Izu for hot springs often stop by to take a look.

There is a legend here, whose protagonist is the "Jorōgumo". The Jorōgumo is a spider yokai from Japanese legend, usually appearing as a beautiful woman who sits by the water playing the biwa, luring passing men, then wrapping them in silk, dragging them into the water, and devouring them.

The story goes like this. Long ago, there was a woodcutter who had chopped firewood all day and stopped to rest by the pool beside the waterfall, placing his axe on the ground beside him. At that moment, a fine thread stretched out from the water and lightly wrapped around his ankle. He didn't think much of it, assuming it was waterweed. After a while, another thread wrapped around him, then another, and he finally realized something was wrong. Looking down, he saw that something in the depths of the pool was slowly dragging him.

He remembered what the elders had said: that a Jorōgumo lived in this pool. He panicked but did not lose his head. He looped the silk around his ankle onto a large tree stump nearby, then grabbed his axe and struck the thread with one blow. The thread snapped, and that tree stump was instantly dragged into the pool, uprooted, and never surfaced again.

After that, the woodcutter never went there again.

This legend is still told today; it is a story for the scenic area, not a warning. The pool water is very deep, said to be bottomless, and signs on the shore warn people not to approach. Every summer, someone takes photos in front of the waterfall.

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