When I watched this video about the Japanese New Year's tradition where devils called Namahage come to town en masse to terrorize and threaten all the lazy and disobedient children at night, I wondered how much they would charge for a personal visit?
But then I thought if I had seen what happens in the first few minutes of this video when I was a kid, I would have crapped my pants. Repeatedly. And probably never left my house at night again until I was thirty.
Perhaps that's what I needed when I was a kid; my grades would have been phenomenal if I had been a shut-in. Either that or I would have been the television trivia expert of the world.
I think I'll pass on creating the stress of worrying about being taken in the night by the Namahage for my kid but don't think I won't be keeping this one in my back pocket just in case we fall on desperate times.
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