The Crawling Woman

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The Crawling Woman


Kanji 這う女の都市伝説
はう おんな の とし でんせつ
Game Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Author Miku Hinasaki
Chapter Hour VIII: The Vacant Dream
Located at Miku's Room
Obtained From Miku
Description A notebook about a certain legend. It is Miku's research from a photo of a crawling woman.
Additional Description That picture of the woman resembles the one in this story.
Related Notes Rescued Woman, Gone

Associated with disappearances and spirited aways, there is an urban legend called "The Woman who Crawls on All Fours".

"In close, dark spaces like under the floor, or in the ceiling or closet, lurks a woman that crawls out every night, cursing bitterly."

That's the gist of it.

Many urban legends of this type are based in fiction (novels, etc.) and real incidents.

As the story spreads, images people fear are added and it becomes all the more "legendized".

For example, the story "The Woman who Crawls on All Fours" is said to be based on the following disaster that actually occurred years ago.

"One month after the disaster, a woman's corpse was found in a ditch several miles from the disaster site.
Evidence showed she was alive up to a few hours before she was found."

It is thought to be an exaggeration since the story became "legendized", but several people who lived where the woman was found along the route to the disaster site say they heard a knocking sound in the night.

There is also another version of this story that has been passed on.

The part about the woman lurking in the floor or the ceiling, seeking help every night, is the same.
But in this one, the ending is that if you peer into the ceiling or floor, she will attack you.

失踪者、神隠しなどにまつわる都市伝説の
一つに「四つん這いの女」というものがあ
ります。

『床下や天井裏、押入れなど、狭くて暗い
場所に潜んでいる女性がいて、毎夜這い出
して来ては、怨みを言う。』

というものです。


このタイプの都市伝説の多くは、元になっ
た(小説などの)フィクションや(事件な
どの)ノンフィクションが存在し、それが
広がって行く過程で、人の持つ恐怖に対す
るイメージなどが加味されてまさに「伝説
化」したものです。


例えば、この「四つん這いの女」という話
は、十数年前に起こった災害時に実際あった
以下のような話を元にしていると言われて
います。

『災害から1ヶ月後に、災害現場とは十数
キロ離れた下水溝から女性の遺体が発見さ
れ、調べると数時間前まで生きていた形跡
が見られた。』


以下は尾ひれとして「伝説化」が始まった
後の話だと思われますが、女性が発見され
た場所と、災害現場の経路上に住んでいた
何人かは、夜中に何かを叩く音を聞いてい
た、という話もあります。


また、この話にはもう一つ、別の伝わり方
をしている例もあります。

大筋は同じく、床下や天井裏に潜む女性が、
毎夜助けを求めてくるというものですが、
こちらの場合は、声のする天井裏や床下を
覗き込むと、そのまま襲われる、という
オチがつきます。

Data
Legend of Song - Tattoo Folklore - Master and Snake - Rituals and Statues - Bones found in Well - Skewered Dolls - Many Bones Found - Buried Mummies - Shrine Carpenters - Carpenters Spirited Away - Missing in Minakami - Land Surveyors Missing - Twin Deification - The Rope Priestess - Rescued Woman, Gone - Patient Disappears - Vanishings - Radio Transmissions - The "Spirit World" - The Camera Obscura
Texts
Manor of Sleep Tomes - The "Other World" - Tattooed Diary - Calico Notebook - Moriya Tomes - Red Diary - Blue Diary - Green Diary - Gray Diary - Purple Diary - Folklore Notes - Crimson Diary - Crimson Sacrifice - Twin Shrine Maidens
Other
Kei's Research Notes - Map with a Mark - Scrap of Paper - Burnt Passport - Yoshino Takigawa's Diary - The Crawling Woman - Yoshino Takigawa - Abandoned House - Letters from Kei - Memo in Shaky Hand - On the Urban Legend - "The Manor of Sleep" - "The Sleeping Priestess" - Red Notebook - Basic Operation - Combat I - Combat II - Hiding Moves - The Purifying Light - "Flash" - "The Sacred Stone" - "Double"
Photos
Camera Obscura - Babe in Arms? - Blood-stained Platform - Ceremony Room Buddha - Cloth on Pedestal - Courtyard Graves - Crawling Woman - Crouching Woman - Four Shadows - Hammering Girls - Hiding Girl - Kei Lookalike - Man In Corridor - Men in white - Miku with Man - Mirror Stand - Mother and Daughter - Old Projector - Peephole - Photo of Kei - Photo of Mio - Picture of Yuu - Seated Twins - Shrine Maiden - Skewered Dolls - Stains on Wall - Standing Girl - The Altar Tattoo - The Closet Woman - Under the stairs - Weeping Woman - Woman at Well - Wounded man - Yoshino's Photo - Yoshino Takigawa
Tapes
Tape "Manor of Sleep" - Tape "The Same Dream" - Old Tape "Ototsuki" - Old Tape "Sleeping Priestess"