Urban legends dress to impress

Before I bring out “The Green Ribbon” for a lesson, I always have to ask myself two questions, the first being “Are the student old enough for this story?” The second question is “Will the parents forgive me for potentially traumatizing their children?” “The Green Ribbon,” originally published in Alvin Schwartz’s In A Dark, Dark Room and Other Stories, is the age-old horror myth of a harmlessly ordinary young girl with an extraordinarily bizarre quirk, an elegant velvet ribbon tied around…

1. According to Japanese urban legends, there is a woman called Kuchisake-onna who asks you if she's pretty twice. If you say no one of those times, you are killed. If you say yes both times she slits your mouth so you look like her.