Tomino's Hell is a cursed Japanese poem that causes illness, misfortune, or even death to whoever reads it out loud. Many have reported feeling uneasy after reading just halfway into it. The poem is about a Tomino who dies and falls to hell. It was written by Yomota Inuhiko in a book titled, “The Heart is Like a Rolling Stone.” The poem in English goes something like this:
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—
and a blood red flower blooms.
Down past the seven mountains and seven rivers of hell,
cute Tomino travels alone.
To welcome you to hell,
The glimmering spikes of the needled mountain stick fresh punctures in the flesh, as a cute sign for Tomino..
