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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]
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.
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
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.
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.
If your family is getting to you this Christmas, allow renowned German director Wim Wenders's zen Japanese toilet drama whisk you away to a better place. Kōji Yakusho stars in Perfect Days, a ...
Shirime (Japanese: 尻目, lit. "buttocks eye") is a strange yōkai with an eye in the place of his anus. The story goes as follows: Long ago, a samurai was walking at night down the road to Kyōto , when he heard someone calling out for him to wait.