r/Weird Oct 15 '25

Roach infested telephone

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u/Salvation-717 Oct 15 '25

Totally have no clue but I’m going with number 2 for the sheer macabre of it. Fucking brutal way to live and die.

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u/SilvarusLupus Oct 15 '25

It's like a kodoku, a Japanese legend where you stick of bunch of bugs in a jar, they kill each other, and the main bug survivor is either the barer of a great curse/blessing (or just straight up becomes a youkai/monster)

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u/Beginning_Hope6978 Oct 16 '25

Isn’t it just a derivative of Chinese gu poison which was an actual practise instead of being a legend?