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Millennia ago, the mountains of the Japanese colony of Amaterasu became known as the mountain of the beautiful moon maiden, or the mountain of the smiling maiden.

The smiling maidens, on their 15th birthdays died at a great wedding feast, among the harvest festivals, they were chosen among the priestesses and younger daughters of feudal lords, in honor of light and the goddess Amaterasu, always during full moons.

Whoever married each of the maidens were chosen from among the younger priests, samurai, sometimes priests, they were responsible for making their smiles and slit their throats, to die smiling, for that.

These same priests said that a week later they were found with only smiling faces, dead when they fell from the mountain gorges, at the foot of the mountains.

The problems were that they didn't stay dead, they always chased like hauntings those who ventured into the forests, full moons, mountains, and sometimes, those who tried to flee the sacrifices, tourists and outsiders, some inhabitants who traveled through the mountains.

In which they were persecuted, if they did not flee, when they saw their immense smiles, they were persecuted, hunted, in the midst of trying to escape, they were always found fallen at the foot of the mountains, those who fled told the stories to others.

It was a small price to pay, due to the sacrifices, everyone there had great days, it never snowed, the volcanoes fell asleep, and for eons, they never erupted again, besides, there were crops and plantations all year round, there was never a lack of food, drinks, they were great at producing stills of sake, cachaças and various drinks, it never snowed.

There are reports going through the news that a climber was found by a group of travelers on a sunny day, when they saw him falling towards the abyss, where he was found with a smile on his face, among trees, rocks and pines, with his body totally broken, bones and a twisted body.

It was a little more than two weeks without visits in those mountains, they traveled news throughout the country that spread towards all countries, where the stories of the cursed mountains and forests were contacted, many arrived at that city called the Mists of the maiden of Paragons, in the mountains of Scarlet Mauve.

At the foot of the mountains behind the pine trees there is a funeral house, between the houses and the villages, along with a Morgue among temples around, where people gather so that they can organize tourism in the mountains.

Television channels came to report on the mountains that lived on four dormant volcanoes, some scientists and experts said, the higher they climbed the mountains the closer people got to toxic gases that could be hallucinogens, as well as a high content of a toxin that could confer hallucinations, some substances similar and similar to anaesthetics.

In short, people could simply, all of a sudden, lose their balance and fall towards the abyss, or towards some cliffs, many vehicles that traveled those mountains, the witnesses who survived.

Those who claimed to see the maiden, hunting them, accompanied by the priests, nevertheless, they never ceased to make the sacrifices in those mountains, in which they had suffered a series of accidents, but they would have no alternative, due to the fact that either they were so entering that city or walking.

All this happened because the place is isolated, many farms had an agreement with carriers that traveled through the airspace so that they could send supplies and raw materials, even agribusiness products.

  • Do you know what I heard today? – One of the tour guides said when they saw that there is another body in the funeral room.

  • Well, this is the third one this week. Another said.

  • The maiden attracted him and the priest chased him. Another of them said at that hour, when they gave an almost perfect answer to innumerable events.

The mists that propagated in the mountains, towards a response of figures from the Meiji era, in a feudal period among the numerous apparitions, between the mountains, abysses and forests.

One of the guides who traveled through the mountains was sitting in the conversation circle, with the other co-workers.

"I was in a camp, along with twelve other tourists, a few weeks ago, it was full night, almost a full moon," he said.

When the hours passed, we went towards our tents, it wasn't just me, but I thought it was one of the campers, so hands started to pass and squeeze the tent, when I went to see, a smiling figure appeared, passing through the tent.

In which they always seemed to be suffocating, squeezing and screaming his tent, until I kicked him.

  • As he moved away, before returning to invest towards the tent, that's when I left, I saw that they were all screaming and running away from the camp because there were other smiling figures with bulging eyes chasing people, squeezing the tents. He spoke.

  • What did you do? Another questioned

I took the keys to the bus, shouted for everyone to run and so we left, I passed by figures of maidens, who I ran over on the roads, screaming and passing the bus.

So, I just came back after three days, to see that everything was still there.

That mountain has a steep coast, it is used by many as a great route, where climbers and nature lovers always travel to go on excursions, there are many guides who travel that mountain with groups of climbers, there are several tourists, many locals who travel those mountains.

For many years, almost millennia, those mountains were known as routes, where at the foot of those mountains lived feudal lords, who sacrificed their youngest daughters for the crops, due to being an extensive area.

Those mountains around those cities were full of superstitions, they were shrouded in legends and mysticisms, when priests who lived in those surroundings simply had the habit of sacrifices, mainly, humans and other animals.

Being a great tourist city, where there are hot springs, a forest where you can camp without danger, except for the ghosts that chase tourists and residents who go out late at night, in the middle of the darkness of the forest.

As soon as the legends that became famous among beekeepers and farmers occurred, that region has a reputation for superstitious and trade for the whole country, in which the place was the source of sustenance for more than all the value of the entire economy of the region.

Since they were responsible for all the plantation that is exported and a commercial center, whose agribusiness is the source of livelihood in that region.

If it produces jobs, money is formed by families of farmers, with festivals of flowers, harvests and summer that lasted all year round, for more than two thousand years, without ever stopping, nor ever snowing, even due to the altitude of those mountains, between the forests and villages.

Having as its fame whose forests are haunted by smiling men who according to legends were the cursed soldiers who took the maidens to the top of the mountains and sacrificed them to be able to bring the beauty of summer, the protection of the days of winter, and the good harvest.

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