Slit-mouthed Woman 

*Originates from Japan* 

 

Emily, Jake and Summer were walking back from school and came across a fork in the road, one way would be quick the other not so much. Summer said "let’s go the quick way." Emily said to Jake "let’s take the long way." Summer said "you wimps!" and took the quick way. She came across a lady with a face mask. The lady took off the mask to reveal a horrible ear to ear grin. She said in a soft voice "Do I look pretty?". In a quiet voice Summer replied "you are not pretty you are beautiful." the lady said "you can look like me" and took some scissors out of her pocket and cut slits to her ears. Blood started gushing out of her mouth pouring all over the street.

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Jack went to check on Summer and saw this tragedy. He ran back to Emily to tell her what he had seen. Emily ran with the fastest of speed with Jack behind her troubling to keep up. The lady mysteriously appeared in front of her and said "Am I pretty?", Emily nervously replied "You are okay". The beast of a woman paused to think but that second was enough and Emily ran at a super-fast speed, it was almost unreal.

 

When they got to Emily's house she ran up the stairs to the book case and pulled out a book called "Urban legends" opening it to page 666. Jack looked at the page in astonishment, he could not say a single word. It was Slit Mouth the lady who killed Summer.

 

Original source: https://www.colt.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-tale-of-Slit-Mouth-1.pdf

 

Glossary: 

Astonishment: Suprise

Fork in the road: 

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666-unlucky numbers when put together

Gushing: when blood comes out of a cut very fast 

Beast of a woman: A strong, fearsome woman 

Tragedy: When something very bad that happens, it is a tragedy. 

 

Understanding questions: 

1. How did Emily outsmart the slit-mouthed woman? 

2. How did the slit-mouthed woman kill Summer? 

3. How did Emily and Jack figure out who the slit-mouthed woman was? 

 

 

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