This Japanese urban legend tells the story of a young man visiting his grandparents living in the countryside. It was night time where he arrived. But something felt strange at this moment, he was next to a wall mesuring two meters height
Hachishakusama is a Japanese name composed of "hachi" meaning eight, "shaku" which is an equivalent of the feet measurement, and "sama" which is a suffixe put after someone's name as a respectul title such as Mr, Mrs, etc... In fact, Hachishakusama is a name given to the evil spirit by nearby inhabitants of the countryside.
Her appearance differs from a person to another, but they all describe an unusually tall woman making strange noises sounding like "Po po po poppopo po" in a man's voice. Or was it "Bo" or a "Vo"? This is not sure since the voice was pretty low and nearly incomprehensible.
She is said to be sealed in a village by four "jizou"s - small statues of monks -, each placed in all four cardinals - North, South, Est, West - to limitate her area of action.
Although her origins may be unknown, her clasification as a possible onryo is questionable. But I put her anyway since her actions were caracteristics of a curse.
The source of information was taken from this blog, I do not own it and am just sharing this story to a greater audience, so that we could have a nice time having our spines chilling.
http://japuttoglobal.blogspot.fr/2012/01/hachishakusama.html
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