Kankandara

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These are the posts in The Occult BBS of 2ch (equivalent to /x/).

B’s family fight

When I was an elementary school student, I was a hick living in the country. I was used to do like gangs with my closer friends, A and B.

A and I were almost abandoned by our family but Only B always was cared by his mother. She was harsh but looked after his trouble well.

However, one day when we got the third grade in junior high school, B fought with his mother quite fiercely. We could not hear the detail of that but we heard that he mentally hurt her.

After he hurt her terribly, his father came home.

He grasped out the situation at a glance. He ignored B and approached his wife. His wife looked terrible, hairs and clothes had got rumbled, her dead eyes were looking around the ceiling… He said to B with holding his wife without watching B.

B’s father said to B
“You… You had got a person to do such a terrible thing. Why do you see how your mother cares you?!”

B answered
“Shut up! Do you want to go into hell? Ah?”

B did not feel like listening.

However, B’s father continued indiscreetly talking without worrying about it.
“You. Do you think that there is nothing scary for you in the world?”

“Yes. I want to see that if there were.”
B answered.

“You are my son. I see well how your mother cares you. However, if you can’t do nothing for your mother except such a thing, I have an idea. I will tell you this not as a parent but as a people, another. I will tell you in advance, but what I command you from now means that I think you may die.”

B felt something like a terrible spirit but provoked
“Okay! Come on!”

B’s father said,
“You know the no-entry area in the woods, don’t you? Enter there and go ahead. You’ll see. Try to rampage as before. If you could…”

Mysterious Area

The woods that his father said was at the foot of the little mountain in our town. We could go into the mountain or the woods easily but there was the no-entry area in the woods.

The area was something like a small circle in a big square. That was quite partial.

It was surrounded by 2 meters tall fence with bared wire, white paper, and many bells. Because the shape of that area was very strange, the fences were standing in an anxiety. It was unusual.

Well… On some certain days, I saw some shrine maidens gathering at the entrance there but we couldn’t approach there those days. So I had no idea what they did.

There was a lot of rumor. The most famous rumor was that the area belonged to the strange cult and there was a Brainwashing facilities.

It was hard to go there. So I did’t hear the story about what was at the end of that.

Bad Boys

B’s father went to upstairs with his wife before B answered. B got out home and met us waiting for B. Then we heard that from him.

A said
“It is so big trouble that your father said so!”

I said
“According to the rumor, there is the hideaway of the cult. Does he mean that he wants you to be arrested and be brainwashed? I am little scared… What will you do? Go?”

B said
“Of course! It must be his bluff.”

A and I decided to go with him with interesting half. After we prepared tools for everything, it was over 1:00 am.

We went to the woods in high spirits and went into there with the flashlight turned on. It was not so hard way to walk wearing light clothing and we wore the mountain footwear. However we must walk there for 40 minutes.

After about 5 minutes something strange happened. We could hear the sound in the distance. We could hear that more because of the silence of night woods. It was he that first noticed.

Law of Sound

B said
“Hey, can you hear something?”

In his words, we listened carefully. Sure it sounded. The sound of dragging fallen leaves and the sound of folding branches. It sounded faint from a distance.

I didn’t feel scared because of fanciness and far distance. I think that that might be it by animals. So we continued to go ahead.

After 20 minutes, B noticed again and stopped us.

B said
“A, only you, please walk alone.”

A asked
“Why the hell?”

B said
“Soon!”

A started walking ahead and came back. B watched that and started thinking deeply.

A bellowed
“Hey! What the god?”

I did too
“Explain!”

Hearing our bellow, B said
“Listen carefully. Be quiet.”

B did as A did. He did that 3 times. We noticed at last.

The faint sound from a distance were fitting to our motion. If we started walking, it started sounding. If we stopped, it stopped. It seemed that we were seen.

I felt cold. There was no light except ours. There was a moon in the sky but it were covered with trees. For our light, it was no wonder that someone could see us. However, we could not see each other easily because of the darkness.

What did it doing in such a darkness.

Why did it fit to our motion.

B said
“Fxxk you! Someone is chasing us?”

A said
“It doesn’t seem come near. It seems keep distance.”

As A said, about 20 minutes had passed since we entered the woods, the distance between us and sound source did not seem to change. It did not come near or leave either. From the beginning, it kept distance.

I said
“Are we monitored?”

A said
“I feel so too. If they are cult, they may have some device to do so.”

Judging from the sound, it seemed alone. It followed us long ago. We stopped and thought for a while. We thought it was danger to exploring the identity and decided to go ahead with watching around.

The Fence

We went ahead with the sound for awhile. Finally the fence came into view. We did not care about the sound. Because the atmosphere of the fence was far more scary than the sound.

It was the first time to see that for all of us. It was more scary than imagination. At the same time, the idea which I had not ever had came to the brain. Even for us, usually stupid of ghost, It seemed the fence meant that the thing over it was a not realistic thing. It must be absolutely dangerous.

No way… Was that the haunted spot? It was the first time that I thought I was in the dangerous place since entering woods.

A said
“Hey! We must break this to enter? This is not normal whoever sees.”

B said
“Shut up! Don’t be afraid of such a fence.”

B got angry with us afraid of it and started breaking the fence with the tools that we brought. The sound of the bells was noisy than it of the damage.

However, the fence was stronger than we expected. He could not break that. It was unnaturally strong. I wondered that it might be of special materials.

After all, the only way left was climbing the fence. It was easy because of the rope.

However when I got over it, I felt strong discomfort. To express, it was feeling of blockage.

A and B seemed to feel that too. We hesitated to go ahead but we must do because we entered.

At the moment we began to walk, we noticed. The sound that followed us had stopped. I thought it did not matter but I felt cold because of A’s words.

“It may… He may be here long ago. This fence does not seem to have the exit. So he could not come near…”

B said
“What you say must not be true. From here, we can not see where we noticed the sound motion. He must not be able to see us entering this woods.”

B’s word seemed correct. That no-enter area was far from the entrance of the woods. I said that it took 40 mins and we didn’t walk slowly. So it took about 40 mins actually.

(But if it is not realistic thing?)

I could not deny A’s words.

A and I felt it dangerous… However B got more courageous.

B said
“I don’t know if he is a ghost or not. Ah? If what you said is correct, he can’t get out here. He must be A small fish!!”

B went ahead mote. We followed him.

It had passed half a hour since we got over the fence. We found the opposite side of the fence and something strange.

The Sanctuary

There was a hexagonal barrier. The rope was tied to The 6 trees and made a hexagon. The strip paper was on the rope. And the box like money box was in the center.

At the moment we found that, we could not say anything. Especially A and I were impatient.

(This is really too dangerous…)

However fool we were, we knew the message of the rope. Why the area was uncontested must be because of that. And at last, we had reached there.

I said
“What your father said is this, isn’t it?”

A said
“I can’t rampage here. It is too dangerous.”

However, B was stubborn. B said
“It might be not bad thing. Anyway, let’s see the box. There might be some treasure!”

B went through the rope, entered into hexagon, and approached the box. For A and me, it was more worried about what A would do than about the box. Anyway we followed him.

The Box

Because of the rain and so on, the box was rusty. Its upper was a lid made of steal net. But under the lid, the board was affixed so we could not see inside.

And on the box, some picture was drawn with chalk… it looked like family marks. They were different from each other.

A and I tried not to touch as much as possible. B was touching without being concerned so we alerted him. It seemed attached to the ground. We could not lift that.

How could we see inside… We checked to every corner and B found only the back side was removable.

“Wow! I can remove this side. We can see inside!”

B removed that side and we saw the inside.

In the box, there were the 4 bottles filled with strange liquid on every corners. On the center in the box, toothpicks which tips were painted red were in an odd form.

This form, 6 toothpicks. Only the contacts were painted red.

I said
“What? Are these toothpicks?”

A said
“The liquid in these bottles like PET is so disgusting…”

B said
“Fxxk! Coming here, what we find are just some PET bottles and toothpicks? Oh No!”

What A and I did was only touching the bottles little. B took that, smelled, and so on.

B restored the bottle and reached out to touch the toothpicks.

However, because of his hand sweat, as he touched them, some of them stuck to his hand and the form was little collapsed.

The Monster

Then

Ting-a-ling! Ting-a-ling-ling! ting-a-ling ting-a-ling!!

We heard very very noisy bells sound from the fence beyond that hexagon area, opposite side of us. All of us screamed and looked at each other.

“Who the hell! Do Not be silly!”
B said so and started running to that direction.

“Hey! You mustn’t go there!”
I said.

“B! That is too dangerous!”
A said too.

We hurriedly tried to run to follow B. However B stopped suddenly and froze with his light facing forward.

“HA HA… Do you want to scare us?”
A and I approached B in a hurry. B started trembling with wiggling.

“H…Hey, What’s happen?”
I said and looked ahead lighted up by his flashlight.

His flashlight was lighting up around the root of one of the woods. I saw the woman’s face in the shadow of it. I could see the half of the face and she was looking us without dazzled at all. She was showing upper and lower teeth but her eyes was not smiling but expressionless.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhh!”
Screaming so, all we turned back and ran away. I could think nothing but did the best with instinct. We had not time to look each other. We ran to the fence desperately.

Finding the fence, we jumped to it and started climbing in a hurry. Getting to the top, we jumped off… ?

A could not finish climbing because of panic.

“A!! Hurry up!!”
I said.

“Hey! Hurry up!”
B said too.

We had no idea about what to do in waiting for A.

“OMG! What’s that? What?”
I screamed.

“I don’t know. Shut up!”
B said to me.

Then…

Ting-a-ling! Ting-a-ling-ling! ting-a-ling ting-a-ling!!

The bells of the fence rang with loud volume and the fence began to shake.

What? Where? B and I looked around in a panic… From the opposite side from us, the direction to the mountain, Something seemed approaching. The sound and shaking became bigger and bigger.

“No way! No Way!”
I said.

“Hey, do you still? Hurry up!”
B said to A.

I knew that our words made A more confused but we must hurry him. A was climbing hard.

A was getting to the top… However we did not look at him. We were trembling with wiggling and could not make a voice.

A noticed our condition and looked at the same direction that we looking.

IT was coming to us from far with sticking to the fence… not over side but this side!!

There were not only a head but also naked “upper” body and 6 arms. IT moved on to us with grabbing the net and barbed wire deftly.

TREMENDOUS FEAR.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhh!”

Run Away

A jumped off and collapsed to us. B and I returned to sanity because of that, we stood him up. We ran hard to the entrance of the woods. It could not be 30 minutes to run hard but I felt it for hours.

We saw the entrance! We found some human figures over there.

(Wait… They can be…)
All of us stopped in a sudden and tried to confirm the identity of them. We had no idea who they were. They gathered a lot. However they did not seem to be IT.

We noticed that, started to run again and jumped into the crowd.

“Hey, they come!”

“No way… Did they really enter there?”

“Hey! Tell her in a hurry!”

The people who gathered came to us. We were too confused to understand what they said to us.

We were put in a car and were taken to the city hall in spite of it passed 3:00 am. There, my mother, sister, A’s father, and B’s mother were. Not only B’s mother but also my mother who I had properly not talk with were crying. According to A, his father’s facial expression was also unbelievable.

B’s mother said
“I’m glad to see everyone safe. Really glad!”

Unlike B’s mother…
A and I were beaten by each parent. However we could hear the worm words from them that we had not ever heard.

After a while conversation, B’s mother started to speak.

“I’m sorry. This was not only my husband’s fault but my fault. I’m really sorry. I’m really…”

She apologized many times. I felt it not good that the parent showed such a posture, even if she was another parent.

“Already okay, Mrs? Everyone is safe.”
A’s father said.

“Yes. And it was not your fault.”
My mother said.

After that the adults discussed something and we could not do anything. Because of too late time, we confirmed safety and finished in this day. At this time, we were not explained enough.

Accident

The next day, I was woken up by my sister. Waking up, I saw her strained face.

“What’s happen, sis?”
I asked her.

She answered
“A call from B’s mother. Something terrible!”

As soon as I took phone, B’s mother yelled at me.
“B… There is something wrong with B! Yesterday, what did you do?! Not only enter the fence?!”

I thought it impossible to talk. I hanged up the phone and went to B’s house. A seemed had got a call from her like me, he was there. We listened to B’s mother.

According to her,
After coming home, suddenly B started to shout that his limbs were hurt. It might mean that they hurt too much to move and he stretched his limbs straight. He rolled on on the floor with saying hurt hurt and hurt.
His mother tried to help but he said nothing except “hurt”. Even after she managed to bring him to his room, his condition did not change.

This is why she called us.

Soon after listening that, we want to his room. We could hear his shout from stairs.

“Hurt! Hurt! HurT!”
He was repeating.

We entered the room and found him stretching his limbs as she said.

“Hey B! What’s wrong?”
I asked.

“Come on! What’s happen?”
A asked too.

However we talked to him, he said only “Hurt” without watching us.

(What is happening?)
A and I could not understand at all. We returned to his mother once and she asked us in a quiet tone different from then.

“Would you talk to me what you did there? If you do, we can understand all. What did you do there?”

We understood what she asked. However to answer the question, we must remember the incident. It was too scary to remember. So we could not answer decently. Well… to be honest, we forgot what we did except seeing IT because IT was too scary. She seemed to mean that there was the reason why IT appeared. She asked not “What did we see?” but “What did you do?”.

We tried to remember what we “did”. That must be the reason. If she asked “What did you see?”, it meant IT. However all of us saw IT. It was strange that only B got crazy. Then what we did? All of us touched the box, the bottles, and the toothpicks…

We noticed. That was because of the toothpicks. Only B touched them, shifted the form, and did not fix it.

We told her that. Her complexion gradually got worse and started to tremble with slightly. Then she took a letter from the bookshelf and called somewhere with watching that. What we could do was waiting.

After a while calling, she came back and said to us in trembling voice.

“They can meet us if we go to them. So please ready from now. I will call your parents. They may help you prepare. Please come here again the day after tomorrow. “

We could not understand. Who would we meat? If we asked, she did not answer. After returning home, I was said

“You must go.”

Travel

Two days later, without understanding, B’s mother, A, and I went to One place. B had been taken the previous day. I thought it might be a little far. However it was very far. We went through some cities or prefectures. It took many hours with a bullet train and a car.

At last, we got the village in the mountains. It was like beautiful picture.

We were taken to the mansion at outskirts of that village. The mansion was so great that it had an annex and a warehouse. B’s mother rang the door bell. Then the middle aged and the girl came to meet.

The middle aged wearing suit looked a gangster. The girl was a little elder than me and wearing white and red kimono (Japanese shrine maiden style).

According to them, the middle aged was the uncle of the girl. And the name of the girl was “Aoi-kanjo”? I couldn’t hear well so it may be mistake. However, she said that she would not tell her true name and it was the rule of her clan.

Actually, I don’t know about them well so I will call them “Aoi” and “Uncle” here.

We were taken into the wide room and the serious story began without any knowledge.

“We make your son rest now. These boys are who were with him?”
Uncle asked B’s mother.

“Yes. These three went there.”
She answered.

“Okay. Hey, you. Please tell us. Where did you go? What did you do? What did you see? As much as possible.”

We were impatient because of sudden talked, A and I told them what happened at that night as much as possible. However, when we started to talk about the toothpicks,

“Hey, now, what the hell did you say?”

Uncle said in intimidating voice. We got more confused.

“Wel…Well?”
A asked.

“Hey, you. That’s no way but didn’t you move that?!”
Uncle bellowed. He looked to strike us nearly. Aoi stopped it and said in a very thin voice.
“In the center in the box… something like small stick was set in one form. Did you touch them? If you did, did you change the form?”

“Well… ah… Yes. Maybe touched… The form might be changed a little.”
I answered.

“Who changed the form? Do you remember? Not “touched” but “changed”.”
Aoi asked again.

A and I looked each other and answered that it was B.

Then Uncle sat down, sighed, and said to B’s mother…
“Mom, I’m very sorry… but we could do nothing for your son. I had not heard much enough to decide. From his condition, I thought about other reasons. It was unbelievable that moved that…”

“No…”
B’s mother seemed to have more words to say but she kept them in her mind and was looking down for a while. We could not say anything but were same as her.

(What does he mean? They can do nothing for B?)
We wanted ask so but could not make a voice.

Seeing us, Uncle started to talk with sighing. At last, he talked about what we saw.

“Kankandara”

IT’s correct name is “Naridara”.
IT’s slang name is “Kankandara”.

“Narijhara”, “Naridara”, “Kankanjhara”, “Kankandara”…etc It has a lot of names.

The most popular name is “Dara”, but Special People like Uncle or Aoi called IT “Kankandara”.

This story is almost  a mythology or a legend.

Once upon a time, in one village, the people were having trouble with sneak which ate human. One day, they asked the maiden to hunt it. She was treated as a child of God and had some supernatural power.

She battled with that sneak hard with looked by the people from behind. However she did little mistake and the sneak ate her lower body. But even so, she used many magic to save the people from the sneak.

…Then the people thought that she would not win the sneak and started negotiation with the sneak.

“If we give the maiden as a sacrifice, please give the peace of the village…”

The sneak which was envious of her power accepted. It made the people cut her down and ate the block of her body.

After that, it got clear that the plan of negotiation had been suggested by one of her family. At that family was 6 people.

Soon, the accident happened.

Since one day, the sneak did not appeared. There had to be no danger in the village. However the people died one after another. Some died in the village, the others did in the mountain, the other did in the woods…

Everyone who died lost his right arm or left arm. The victims were 16(including the family of the maiden). There were 4 survivors.

The guardians

“I don’t know when or where it began. The box has been protected and sometimes moved at a constant period. The guardian changed every time.
There are some marks on the box, aren’t you? They are the clan mark of the guardians. There is a committee which judges the clans. It decides the clan forcibly. Sometimes some clans volunteer…
Except the guardian, the story about “Kankandara” will not told. To neighborhood, it will be told only that it is dangerous and who they should call in some accident. When it is told, the people like us will be with.
Now, we are not who you should call in some accident. However it seemed too dangerous to wait so we decided to treat.”
Uncle said…

I heard that it was not Uncle who B’s mother called and the person who called thought it impossible to solve and introduced Uncle. B’s mother had already called him after our going there.

Aoi said…
“The box usually put in the mountain or woods. I think you saw, 6 trees means the 6 members of maiden’s family. And the 4 bottles means 4 survivors. And finally, the form made with small sticks means The Maiden.

Why the form is such a form or When the box stile began… No one knows now.”

According to them,
It is the most popular that the 4 survivors researched how to calm down the anger of The Maiden and the box stile was born at last.

The fence was made by the guardian not because of the rule. Only the bells on the fence was the must item.

“There were some guardian in my clan. However all of them died after a few years later. Sudden death. Most of Others also died too. It is too difficult to treat…”
Uncle said.

We were all astonished.

Then Main subject began…

“Mom, you can understand how dangerous it is, can’t you? Like I’ve said before, we could help your son if your son had not moved the stick. However this time, we can do nothing.”
Uncle said.

“Please. Isn’t there something? This is my responsibility. Please!”
B’s mother said.

B’s mother did not give up. I did not think that it was not her responsibility at all but she asked hard. However she looked to have been ready…

The light

“I want to do something.But… If he moved them and saw IT’s lower body… You saw IT, didn’t you? What you saw was The Maiden eaten by the sneak. You saw IT’s lower body, didn’t you? Then you understood the meaning of the form, didn’t you?”
Uncle said.

“What?”
A and I did not understand his words. IT’s lower body? What we saw was only IT’s upper body.

“Well… What is Lower body? We saw only the Upper body…”
A said to Uncle.

Then they were surprised at A’s words.

“Hey, hey, what are you saying? Did you move the sticks? If so, you should see IT’s lower body.”
Uncle said.

“The Maiden who appeared didn’t have the lower body? Well… How many arms did she have?”
Aoi asked us.

“6 arms. 3 arms on each side. However there was not the lower body.”
A and I answered so.

Then Uncle approached us again and asked
“Is it true? You did not really see IT’s lower body, didn’t you?”

“Ye… Yes…”
I answered again.

Uncle watched B’s mother and smiled.
“Mom, there might be something to do for your son.”

We listened to them carefully.

“There are 2 actions that make you haunted by The Maiden. What you must not do is to change the form that means the her form. What you must not see is her figure like the form in the box.”
Aoi explained.

“Actually, It will be over when you change the form. Because you will see the IT’s figure after that. However, this time, you did not see that.
It should look the same figure for everyone. So that you did not see that, B should not see that either.”
Uncle said.

“What do you mean? “did not see”? What is what we saw…”
I was confused…

“She was also The Maiden too. However she was not “Kankandara”. She did not have will to kill you. So she appeared not as “Kankandara” but as “The Maiden”. The thing you explained at that night was a game for her.”
Aoi explained.

“If “Kankandara” did not appeared, it might be like a game as Aoi said. Please leave your son to us for long.”
Uncle said.

It was the first time that we felt relax. It was happy for us to know B might be helped. B’s mother’s emotion was great. For a few days, she seemed to have been afraid of B. She smiled at last. She seemed to be released from all the anxiety.

Seeing that, Uncle and Aoi smiled too. They looked like ordinary people unlike before.

“We will take care of your son. Mom, we will explain more later. Hey you boys! Go home after Aoi’s purifying. From now on, you should not do over to test courage!”
Uncle said.

After hearing about B little more, B’s mother remained there but A and I went home after Aoi’s purifying. We could not meet B because of the rule. I don’t know what they did for B. I have not met B ever. However I hear that he is alive and work somewhere now.

By the way, B’s father did not appear in the accident. I can’t believe his moral.

A and I got well soon after that because… the most reason I think is that we could see B’s mother’s emotion. She seemed to feel the most painful. I felt how hard mothers are. My parents and A’s parents got a little friendly to us. A and I got not to fool.

More information

The rest… I got some information about “Kankandara”.

The maidens gathering in front of the fence were the members of the adviser family. “Kankandara” is recognized not only as a dangerous monster but also as God. The sneak was God of the mountain or the woods. So they must calm IT down with dance or songs once in a year.

Well why we heard the sound of bells was because “Kankandara” was free in the fence. The hexagon and the sticks in the box were the seal of IT. So without moving them, IT does not appear.

The place where they seal IT is selected in some rules. One of that, it must be in the mountains or the woods. Besides this, there are many complex rules. “Kankandara” can’t get out of the area but IT can stick to the outsider of the fence if they build the fence.

These are all I could know.

IT seems to have been removed from my neighbor. We have not been there since that because of fear but the construction to remove the fence began about a year ago. So “Kankandara” seems to be in other place…

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