While I can’t tell one hundred stories, here are seven of the scariest stories featuring female yurei ( Japanese ghosts) and yokai ( Japanese monsters and spirits) that you can tell your friends, maybe even your older and braver kids, as a spooky bedtime story. Once the final candle was blown out, the room would be plunged into darkness and a ghostly figure would appear. They would sit in a circle of one hundred candles and every time someone told a story, one candle would be blown out. In old Japan, samurai would play a game: The Hyakumonogatari Kaidan. Curl up in a warm blanket and let these ladies tell their terrifying stories. Interestingly enough, most of these stories are centered around women. Japan has some of the best-and least known-ghost stories or kaidan.
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