The story-painted skin actually continues. The wife finds out about her husbands death and begs the priest to help her,he then tells her to go to a place where there will be a beggar and he will be able to help her. The place is very far away and she travels across mountains and finally arrives at a village where she finds the beggar. The people there tell her that he is mental and tells the wife not to listen to the beggar. But the wife is very desperate and pleads the beggar to help her. The beggar turns out to actually be the priest who put the wife on a test to see if her love was true for her husband. The priest grants her wish and when she returns home, her husband came back to life.
uhh... it's actually much more disgusting than this: When the wife went to the marketplace to find the beggar, she found the beggar all dirty and smelly. The wife then begged him to bring her husband back to life, but he refused, saying that he is just a regular guy. The wife then “kowtowed” to the beggar and he finally agreed, telling her to *swallow his spit* and she did that. When the wife went back home, she saw that her husband was still dead as ever. She felt that she did all this for nothing, only to be tricked and humilated, so she cried in misery. Suddenly she felt a lump in her throat and spit it out. It was her husband's beating heart. She then immediately put the heart in her husband's body and pressed hard to stop the heart from escaping. The husband then return to life and they lived happily ever after since.
ghosts in china are normally described as kind and innocent in the late dynasty. chinese ghost stories always try to tell people that the living ones who hast evil thoughts are scarier than those who are dead. and the dead became ghosts because they died of injustice. they want retribution or a new trial to bring the murderer into justice.
From the version of painted skin I heard, after the dude's heart was stol- ripped out, his wife went to see a priest. The priest made the wife swallow his spit and went to the dude's house. The wife, pissed that she swallowed the priest's spit persevered since she wanted to save her husband. When both the priest and wife got to the house, the priest opened the dudes's body like a book. The wife, upon seeing the inside of her husband's body, is disgusted and spits up the priest's spit which magically transforms into a human heart. Dude revives and happily ever after.
Once I think I read in a book about a Japanese horror story about this school girl's ghost haunting a school in one of the bathroom stalls. The only way to get rid of her is to show her a perfect straight a test.
Can you do ghost superstitions? E.g. Today my mother told me that Chinese people don't want to live in houses where people have committed suicide because the spirit will drive someone else to commit suicide in order to replace them so they can move on.
Watching this really late at night with a storm outside... Also going out later on... Good time to watch this video and crap my pants during the night... Smart idea right?
You guys are awesome. I love all the stories and information you guys give. I highly appreciate it. Does OTGW have a vine account? That could get you guys a lot of publicity.
Can't stop watching them time n again! u guys should definitely do more..:D totally love them,especially the way of telling story n Mike's tome.." do u think im going to give up....or AM I PRETTY.."..:D
There's one about a cave where you can see your past or your future. As in the past, you can see what you were in your past life before you were reincarnated into the person you are now, and the future can tell you what your greatest achievement in this life will be. A man who's a famous author walks into the cave and wishes to see his future. His wish is granted and he was them allowed to see his last successful work before he falls from grace, where his works are no longer prized. When he leaves the cave the man goes home and starts on the final project that he was shown in the cave, and when he was finished, he committed suicide because he did not want to live his life only admiring one work that he would never surpass. (I guess it's not that scary, but I thought so when I was young.)
Lol I saw this vid and the creepy stories vid 2 and I wasn't as scared cuz u guys were narrating :) I'm chinese as well, cantonese 2 be precise :D AWESOME VID!
I really like your "history lessons" about Ancient China, and they're all so cool! Since you guys are on the topic of Ghost Stories, can you guys please discuss the origins of many common Chinese superstitions?
All the stories are awesome! Funny thing is i saw all these before hearing about them. TVB use to play this TV Shows called Dark Tales where some of the episodes where based on Tales from a Chinese Studio.
Another great video, though I have to say that these stories may be 'weird' I don't necessarily think they are spooky. Keep up the wonderful videos. :)
Can you do stories that connect the history of kung fu and Shaolin. I love history and especially your videos, I've been bewitched for the past week and have even gone over my entire month's data just by watching all your videos. Shaolin history and their daily modern lifes are always a subject i bring up at school and even involve my daily life . Your videos are full of knowledge and the drawings are very creative, it would be amazing to see some Shaolin history come to life.
I think there are quite a few stories around the world where someone is beautiful or who makes you want to approach them (e.g. are friendly, look like they need help etc) turns out to be a monster, it makes sense really because it is in their incentive to get you close as it will be easier for them to eat you or whatever it is they want to do, similar things happen in nature when predators look appealing so prey approaches and get eaten, like angler fish for example.
Asian Scary stories and legends are scariest honestly... xD Like DAYum, I watched this at noon and was still scared as crap, nearly peed my pants! xD, anyways great vid! Keep up the great work!
All these 3 stories are cliffhangers! I want to know the ending! Please do more, my chinese suck and i have difficulty reading it, even though im chinese XP
