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A modern-day depiction of Aka Manto. Aka Manto (赤マント, Red Cloak), [1] also known as Red Cape, [2] Red Vest, [1] Akai-Kami-Aoi-Kami (赤い紙青い紙, Red Paper, Blue Paper), [3] or occasionally Aoi Manto (青マント, Blue Cloak), [3] is a Japanese urban legend about a masked spirit who wears a red cloak, and who appears to people using toilets in public or school bathrooms. [3]
Toilet humour is commonly an interest of toddlers and young children, for whom cultural taboos related to acknowledgement of waste excretion still have a degree of novelty. The humour comes from the rejection of such taboos, and is a part of modern culture.
Aka Manto, a Japanese urban legend about a spirit which appears in bathrooms; Bannik, a spirit which appears in bathhouses in Slavic mythology; Hanako-san, a Japanese urban legend about the spirit of a young girl who haunts school bathrooms; Madam Koi Koi, an African urban legend about the ghost of a woman who haunts a school
Later, "head" became a reference to the toilet that was often located in the bow of the boat, instead. 14. Privy. An old French word meaning "latrine" or in its literal translation, "private place ...
The Shrine to Venus Cloacina in the Roman Forum. The inhabitants of ancient Rome had a sewer goddess, a toilet god and a god of excrement. The sewer goddess Cloacina (named from the Latin word cloaca or sewer) was borrowed from Etruscan mythology and became seen as the protectoress of the Cloaca Maxima, Rome's sewage system.
14th Generation Toilet Hanako-san (十四代目トイレの花子さん) is a Japanese idol whose persona is based on Hanako-san. [18] Her music encompasses many of the themes of the Hanako-san legend, including violence, death, revenge, and psychosexual issues. In Silent Hill 2, in the woman's bathroom in the prison, there are four toilet stalls.
In Japanese folklore, hitodama (Japanese 人魂; meaning "human soul") are balls of fire that mainly float in the middle of the night. [1] They are said to be "souls of the dead that have separated from their bodies", [ 1 ] which is where their name comes from.
A Japanese chimera with the features of the beasts from the Chinese Zodiac: a rat's head, rabbit ears, ox horns, a horse's mane, a rooster's comb, a sheep's beard, a dragon's neck, a back like that of a boar, a tiger's shoulders and belly, monkey arms, a dog's hindquarters, and a snake's tail.