Teke-Teke

Teke-Teke is a contemporary Japanese urban legend describing the ghost of a girl whose lower body is missing. The figure is said to move by dragging itself with the arms, producing a "teke-teke" sound that gives the legend its name. She is also referred to as Hijikake-Onna (elbow-rest woman).

The legend is set late at night in school corridors, train platforms, and along railway lines. Regional and temporal variants have been collected across Hokkaido, Kansai, and Kyushu, with the figure entering wider circulation through 1980s schoolyard traditions.

Tsunemitsu Toru's Gakkou no Kaidan: Koshou Bungei no Tenkai to Shoso (Minerva Shobo, 1993, NDL R100000002-I024806904) records Teke-Teke as part of the school-folklore corpus. Ikeda Kayoko et al., Piasu no Shiroi Ito: Nihon no Gendai Densetsu (Hakusui-sha, 1994, NDL R100000002-I000002374465) is an additional scholarly anthology including the figure.