What did you think when you first heard about Tomino’s Hell Poem? Do you think of candyman as i do.
What is candyman? This is a horror film similar to Tomino’s Hell, scary. It’s something you say out loud in front of the mirror. If you say his name five times, there is an assumption that the slave who was killed and he wants revenge will appear in your mirror. He will kill you with his hook. Terrible isn’t it!
Candyman is really really scary, his hook is also stuck with his bloody hands. It’s weird and very scary. Dare you say his name five times in your mirror when you are alone.
After all I once stayed with friends somewhere, we would watch a movie and go to the restroom. We take turns trying to get the magic number out of five repetitions. I was never sure anything worked, we were so scared of this, like superstitious people.
Tomino’s Hell is similar to Candyman, equally famous and scary. It is even believed to kill anyone who reads his name aloud in the mirror.
What is Tomino’s Hell Poem Curse?
Tomino’s Hell Poem has a curse and about this there are various manifestations. A young girl is said to have died after some time reading this poem aloud.
Do you dare to read this poem aloud in front of a mirror? Why are you afraid of something that is not clear? We say these words with goosebumps, trying to be brave but they are scary and scary to us.
How’s Tomino’s Hell?

This legend is like this: Tomino is considered a boy but it is not so clear, he is said to live in Japan. Tomino wrote the gruesome poem, and his parents were very displeased with what he was doing.
Because he wrote this terrible poem, his parents locked him in the basement. This is a punishment because he wrote the poem (Tomino’s Hell Poem). His parents refused to give him food. Then the intelligent child who composed this poem was cold in the basement and suffering from bronchitis, finally died.
With this punishment, Tomino’s spirit remains engraved by writing more terrible and bad poetry. If you read this poem aloud, it will invoke a curse. He wasn’t mad, but he wrote poetry, line after line in anger at his circumstances. It was said that this boy was born with a serious foot deformity and he had to be on wheels.
The poem he wrote reflects a sadness, his unhappy feeling because he was born with a disability.
Reading The Poem Out Loud
Tomino’s Hell Poem is a curse, this poem became famous when people suffered losses after reading this poem aloud. In 1974, a film was released and translated to “To Die in the Countryside”. The film was written by Terayama Shuji, and directed by himself. This film is inspired a lot from Tomino’s Hell. Later, when he died, many people said his death was the result of the poem, or the poem that inspired him to make films.
There is also a mention that several students died after reading Tomino’s Hell Poem. An urban legend also states that when someone reads Tomino’s Hell Poem aloud, that person can have a serious accident, such as sudden illness, loss of voice or others.
All cases that occur are suspected to have something in common. Where those who died all recited Tomino’s Hell Poem aloud and finally suffered the consequences.
The Trend of Tomino’s Hell Poem
In 1980s Japan there was a trend, where many people were filming and intending to read the poem aloud. This trend is growing in popularity and it is reported that there is no effect from it (read Tomino’s Hell Poem aloud).
But what happened, it seems that the curse came slowly and alternately between them. Until now, in Japan this is considered a curse poem, Japanese parents do not want to read the poem aloud for fear of what will happen. They thought the poem cursed them!
Japan is one country that strongly believes in things like this (superstition).
You want to know how the content of the spooky and scary poem is. We mention this below. Read it with your own risk.
Tomino’s Hell Poem in English
—translated by David Bowles
Tomino’s Hell1
Elder sister vomits blood,
younger sister’s breathing fire
while sweet little Tomino
just spits up the jewels.
All alone does Tomino
go falling into that hell,
a hell of utter darkness,
without even flowers.
Is Tomino’s big sister
the one who whips him?
The purpose of the scourging
hangs dark in his mind.
Lashing and thrashing him, ah!
But never quite shattering.
One sure path to Avici,
the eternal hell.
Into that blackest of hells
guide him now, I pray—
to the golden sheep,
to the nightingale.
How much did he put
in that leather pouch
to prepare for his trek to
the eternal hell?
Spring is coming
to the valley, to the wood,
to the spiraling chasms
of the blackest hell.
The nightingale in her cage,
the sheep aboard the wagon,
and tears well up in the eyes
of sweet little Tomino.
Sing, o nightingale,
in the vast, misty forest—
he screams he only misses
his little sister.
His wailing desperation
echoes throughout hell—
a fox peony
opens its golden petals.
Down past the seven mountains
and seven rivers of hell—
the solitary journey
of sweet little Tomino.
If in this hell they be found,
may they then come to me, please,
those sharp spikes of punishment
from Needle Mountain.
Not just on some empty whim
Is flesh pierced with blood-red pins:
they serve as hellish signposts
for sweet little Tomino.
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