Origin Of "The Ring": Yurei Vs Onryo and Okiku's 10 Plates

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Curator Kara has another movie review: "The Ring".

A voice counts to nine, pauses, and screams. That image pulls us from modern horror back to a legend that refuses to be quiet, as we explore the eerie thread connecting The Ring to the story of Okiku and the ten plates at Himeji Castle. We open with a simple question, if you were wronged and then died, would you seek justice or revenge, and use it to unpack how different cultures shape their ghosts: Yurē as the mournful echoes of unfinished lives, and Onryō as injustice turned into action.

If you love folklore, film, and the way stories carry memory across centuries, this one’s for you. Press play, share it with a horror-loving friend, and then tell us: given the choice, do you haunt or help? And if the show made you think, leave a rating and review so more curious minds can find us.

Reference Shout Outs: 

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/ghost-folklore 

• https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jfolkrese.54.2.0125 

• https://folklorethursday.com/folklore-of-the-week/vengeful-ghosts/ 

• https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/culture/Onryo.html 

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ghosts-and-the-science-of-fear-180962370/ 

• https://www.atlasobscura.com/categories/ghosts

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Ring-film 

• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-ring-horror-film-fear 

• https://collider.com/the-ring-ending-explained/ 

• https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-horror-movies-scare-us-180976510/ 

• https://www.curiousordinary.com/2021/08/okiku.html

• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/twisted-tales-with-heidi-wong/id1839058226?i=1000733162880 

• https://horrorobsessive.com/2021/07/05/the-myths-behind-the-film-the-ring/

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/yurei 

• https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/culture/Yurei.html 

• https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/culture/Onryo.html 

• https://folklorethursday.com/folklore-of-the-week/onryo/ 

• https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/japd/hd_japd.htm  

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ghosts-and-the-science-of-fear-180962370/ 

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Okiku  

• https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/culture/Okiku.html 

• https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/culture/Bancho_Sarayashiki.html 

• https://folklorethursday.com/folklore-of-the-week/okiku/ 

• https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/japd/hd_japd.htm 

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