The Caller: The Egyptian Myth Of "El Nadaha" Between Facts And Fiction

 

Upper Egypt, the most mysterious part of the country where ancient myths and sacred beliefs are inherited from the ancient great kings of Egypt , and the lords of black magic , about dark entities and secrets of the underworld.

In this article we will be talking about one of the most famous inherited myths of all times in Egypt 

" The Caller " .

Who's the Caller? 

There's always been a controversy about the "Caller" on whether she's a ghost of a murdered woman or a demon , and you'll only hear about the story from the peasants and the Inhabitants of the countryside of Egypt because that's where the Caller exists as well as all the scary and mysterious myths.

So as for the first conclusion of "the Caller" being a ghost of a murdered woman:

People say that in year 1850 there was a woman who's known by her extreme beauty that no man can resist , and a voice of an angel that makes your heart melt and she was playful and loved how she makes  men  weak in front of her,  so one morning the people found her corpse floating on the lake,  but the murderers were no place to be found  until today,  and that's why her angry spirit came back to take her revenge on all the men in the village by calling them by their names in the middle of the night in her soft angelic voice to get them hypnotized by her beauty so they unconsciously follow her , and drag them to the lake where she drowns them , and the next morning the inhabitants find their bodies floating on the lake with the most disturbing signs of  fear drawn on their faces. 

But as for the second conclusion of " the Caller " being a demon : people believe that she's not even a human but she's the princess of the underworld and she comes out at night to catch her prey the same way we mentioned above in the first conclusion , and the more you get closer to her the more she gets uglier and then transform into an enormous monster and suck the soul out of your body,  but she doesn't have to kill them , actually if she likes them she'll make them choose between  marrying her and living forever with her in the underworld or killing them , if they choose to marry her they disappear forever but if they decided to come back they'll get killed by her for abandoning her and because they may tell everyone about the secrets of the underworld, or they might live but they will lose their minds forever .

So it's believed that those who saw or heard their names being called by " the Caller " but they didn't respond to her are the people who told us how she looked like , they said she has long a bit of a greenish hair,  fair skin,  red glowing eyes, and she's wearing a necklace in the shape of two snakes eating each other's heads , and she's dressed in a long white dress, her feet floats above the ground so she can move extremely fast to catch her prey , and she never call two people at once,  she always waits for the victim to be alone,  and that's why if you go to the countryside of Egypt you'll find everyone getting ready to sleep by 9 PM and no one leaves the house after midnight or they will get called by "the Caller" . 

Some people claim that there's a way to kill or get rid of "the caller" by throwing salt on her face without looking into her eyes while mentioning the name of god .

How the myths affected the crime level in the countryside 

Many criminals took the chance that everyone even the police in the village was busy believing the tale of the " Caller" so they've done a lot of murders and many people were killed and their bodies were thrown in the lake so that people would think that it was the "Caller" who killed them .

Similar to the Caller's story of the Japanese " Kuchisake Onna" 

 

"Kuchisake Onna" or the girl with the ripped mouth , is the most famous myth in Japan just like the "  Caller " in Egypt.

She's a very beautiful girl with beautiful long black hair , wearing a black face mask so you only see her pretty eyes , and that's not bizarre actually cause most of the people in Japan wear face masks . It was believed that the beautiful girl was playful and hard to resist by men , and when her husband found out she was cheating on him , he ripped off her face and destroyed her beauty, so she will be back to take her revenge on everyone who thinks she's not beautiful anymore.

So the myths says that the beautiful girl will walk behind you and will suddenly shift her moves and stand in front of you , and she'll look you deep in the eyes and ask you in a cute voice " do you think I'm beautiful"  , now you'll only have two answers to give " yes" or "No"  but unfortunately both are wrong and she'll kill you anyway , why is that? Well it's because if you say yes you're beautiful , then she'll take off her face mask showing her ripped mouth from ear to ear and all her teeth and jaw covered in blood , and she'll ask you again " do I still look beautiful to you" of course you'll freak out by what you see and before you try to lie and tell her "yes" she'll cut your mouth open from ear to ear and leave you to suffer until you slowly die because she knows you're lying anyway.

But for those who will say "no" she'll kill them immediately. Some people believed that "Kuchisake Onna" actually came back when a lot of corpses were found in the streets of  Japan brutally killed with their faces ripped off just like the way the "Kuchisake Onna" kills people , which disturbed the Japanese community in Nagasaki and schools were closed and children were scared to leave their homes , and even the army forces were covering the streets to protect the citizens , and some people actually came out with tricks to survive the girl's question by answering her with more questions ,  later then when everything went normal , people got back on track with their daily routine as they once used to but the "Kuchisake Onna" will remain in their minds forever .

In 2007 a movie called " Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman" came out discussing the story of the "Kuchisake Onna" .

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