the country of the legend : japan

hachishaku sama The woman that no Japanese child wants to see. This legend appeared recently in the 2000s on the internet.

Hachishaku sama means "woman of 8 feet tall", "Hachi" means "8" and "Shaku" refers to an old Japanese longitude unit , It measures approximately 2.5 / 3 meters and "Sama" means "mrs" used respectfully.

It is a being who is looking for a child, seeking to abuse them because they are easy to deceive. The child chooses, will be condemned to die, she will kidnap the child and we will never hear about the child again

legend :

In the online version, we talk about a young man between 18-20 years old who tells his own story, that of his meeting with this woman when he was barely 8 years old.

His parents dropped the child off with his grandparents (in a Japanese countryside).

That day, in exhausting heat, he was resting in the lawn of his grandparents' garden, when suddenly he heard a strange noise. He did not know where this noise came from and curious to know he looked for the origin. The sound of that voice sounded a bit like a male voice, saying, "Po Po ... Po Po Po ... Po Po"

The boy then saw a woman's hat above the trees, he realized when he saw this hat move that this noise came from this "thing".

He looked through a hole between the trees and he saw a woman and almost at the same time, she disappeared in a strange white smoke and with it the noise also disappeared.

When he returned home, he saw his grandparents having tea in the kitchen and he told them what had happened. They did not listen to the child too much until he spoke about the height of this woman, they stopped talking and went white, the grandfather asked him to repeat what he had said about from the height and where he was when he saw this.

The grandfather quickly called someone, meanwhile, he left his wife and grandson alone in the kitchen, the boy saw that his grandmother was trembling and he did not understand why ... The grandfather returned , he asked his wife to stay with the child.

The crying child asked his grandfather what was going on? The grandfather replied:

" hachishaku sama  like you " 

The grandfather went to look for a "witch" able to stand up to Hachishaku sama. He locked the boy in his room and told him not to open to anyone, he placed before in the corners of the room salt and a picture of Buddha, he had to pray in front of this photo if he was afraid. The witch told the child that he had to be locked up alone, until 7 a.m. the next day, and she gave him a parchment which he should not drop under any circumstances.

The child alone in his room heard "Po Po Po Po Po" which announced the coming of Hachishaku Sama. The grandfather shouted to the child to open the door if he was afraid, the child thought back to what the witch had said, and died of fear he knelt down and prayed to Buddha, he saw that the salt went black.

The night was terrible for this child, he heard knocks on the window, and the next morning, seeing the time, he went out ...

Her grandparents, parents wept for joy. He was the only one to see her, he had to close his eyes when he saw her again. They left in a van, when all of a sudden he looked out the window and she was there he shouted and his family told him to close his eyes immediately, he hurried to do it and he was holding the witch's scroll firmly in his hands.

Nobody saw her or heard the freezing noise, he only heard the blows in the body.K-san (the witch) prayed and after a while everything stopped.