The Cursed Poem (Tomino's Hell)
Horror Stories - The Cursed Poem (Tomino's Hell)
Tomino's Hell is a poem that is supposedly cursed. It is said that if you read the poem out loud or hear it in any way, you will be horribly cursed, and bad things are destined to happen to you. If you read it in your head, nothing will happen.
Also, apparently reading it in Japanese gives you an even better chance of being cursed, since the translations are a bit rougher than the original. The poem talks about a cute person named Tomino and their sisters in... hell? I'm not that sure. It is definitely a unique poem that takes some deciphering to get the full meaning of. It talks about odd imagery, such as seven mountains, Tomino spitting out jewels, and their sisters vomiting fire.
There's also a popular painting that goes with the poem, and a picture of it is shown above. I think it is very interesting, but also unsettling. The color scheme and composure of the person in the painting is definitely eerie.
There are reports of people getting intense headaches, close relatives dying, and being injured a day after reading the poem. One person read it and had their grandmother die the next day. Another reader broke their foot hours afterward.
Even with the belief that it may be because of the poem, however, there is a large possibility that is could just be a coincidence that something bad happened after reading it. People always have bad events in their life out there, and maybe one was going to happen after reading the poem no matter what. To go along with this, many people have read it, and most of them claimed that nothing happened, except that they got chills while reading it. Either way, it's up to you to decide on how to judge it.
Also, apparently reading it in Japanese gives you an even better chance of being cursed, since the translations are a bit rougher than the original. The poem talks about a cute person named Tomino and their sisters in... hell? I'm not that sure. It is definitely a unique poem that takes some deciphering to get the full meaning of. It talks about odd imagery, such as seven mountains, Tomino spitting out jewels, and their sisters vomiting fire.
There's also a popular painting that goes with the poem, and a picture of it is shown above. I think it is very interesting, but also unsettling. The color scheme and composure of the person in the painting is definitely eerie.
There are reports of people getting intense headaches, close relatives dying, and being injured a day after reading the poem. One person read it and had their grandmother die the next day. Another reader broke their foot hours afterward.
Even with the belief that it may be because of the poem, however, there is a large possibility that is could just be a coincidence that something bad happened after reading it. People always have bad events in their life out there, and maybe one was going to happen after reading the poem no matter what. To go along with this, many people have read it, and most of them claimed that nothing happened, except that they got chills while reading it. Either way, it's up to you to decide on how to judge it.
Do not read this out loud!
Tomino's Hell
Elder sister vomits blood, younger sister’s breathing fire while sweet little Tomino just spits up the jewels.
All alone does Tomino go falling into that hell, a hell of utter darkness, without even flowers.
Is Tomino's big sister the one who whips him? The purpose of the scourging hangs dark in his mind.
Lashing and thrashing him, ah! But never quite shattering. One sure path to Avici, the eternal hell.
Into that blackest of hells guide him now, I pray - to the golden sheep, to the nightingale.
How much did he put in that leather pouch to prepare for his trek to the eternal hell?
Spring is coming to the valley, to the wood, to the spiraling chasms of the blackest hell.
The nightingale in her cage, the sheep aboard the wagon, and tears well up in the eyes of sweet little Tomino.
Sing, o nightingale, in the vast, misty forest - he screams he only misses his little sister.
His wailing desperation echoes throughout hell - a fox peony opens its golden petals.
Down past the seven mountains and seven rivers of hell - the solitary journey of sweet little Tomino.
If in this hell they be found, may they then come to me, please, those sharp spikes of punishment from Needle Mountain.
Not just on some empty whim Is flesh pierced with blood-red pins: they serve as hellish signposts for sweet little Tomino.
