Legend Of The Oni

First of all to explain what Oni is. In legends or children's stories, Oni is an imaginary human-like monster. It is said to have horns on its head, naked and wearing a loincloth made of tiger skin, and to be monstrous and wild in nature.

Oni are often imagined as monstrous creatures, but they can also appear as spiritual beings in some religions. The true identity of Oni as a spirit is human being, a him/her self. It is said that a person will become an evil spirit due to hatred and jealousy, and will transform into a form of demon, the Oni. Very famous Noh play, performs Hanya,　starting as a beautiful woman and slowly transforms into a horned monstrous being because of her anger and jealousy against her lover.

Since they can be spirits, Oni is regarded as a form of fear that brings disasters to people in the same way as demons in western cultures (I am kind of more familiar with demons than Oni).

This story does not really evolve on a person changing into a demon, but rather watching a person being cursed by the Oni. From the previous story (may be a couple of stories before since I have rushed my posts during the summer) my friend's family were believed to be cursed and were not able to go to Kyoto area freely due to political problems dating back centuries ago.

"Ryujin?"my friend called to me.

"Yea? You want some snacks again?" I called back, I was in the kitchen cooking some paste sauce to keep and some for us to use. Also my friend was in her period, so she needed random snacking and munching but not too much since her stomach is weak.

She ran in the kitchen carrying our "baby", Aleshanee (actually my house cat) and began, "my cousin just sent me a message through Line (a Korean app which looks kind of like WhatsApp), saying that his family members are in trouble." Aleshanee was doing a "what?" face and that made me smile a bit. "I am not joking! Please be in the mood to think it as something paranormal!" she fussed and pulled me over to see her phone.

"Alright so... Someone got scratched? And... What happened?" I asked looking at a picture she was showing me.

"That's my cousin, he was scratched mysteriously, you know he does not have any pets? And he lives alone, and you know that scratching mark if he would have been doing it himself it would not be like that" she pointed out as many strange evidence as possible and tried to make me think of something paranormal related... That always happens and I always will debunk her "evidences".

Always, I told her every scientific possibilities, "sleep disorder", "imaginative-victimization", etc (Almost everything I heard here in this site and something else I learnt from other people). She insisted those were not the fact, and will blame it something else much more complicated.

"Alright, what about demon possession?" I answered losing my words. "Hey? You know what maybe it is kind of close? You know our family is cursed," she told me toning down a little.

OK, this always happens during our "normal" conversation, she will pick-up something about her family's curse, and blame all kinds of possible facts... Alright respect the legend so and so... GOT IT, GOT IT.

I jumped a little because there were no changes for 1 week and so, I was camping and was a little drunk, I did not really remember the conversation, but I got all the messages inside Line.

My friend sent me a message "Ryujin, my cousin's wound became worse."

"What can I do? Call a doctor," I replied.

My friend called, I barely remember what she said, and it was about some sort of curse, so I think I became a bit cranky and just cut off her call in the middle of the conversation. "Why did you cut me off?" I saw my friend's last message in the morning.

Spooky for me because I still do not remember any conversation there, but that is not the main case. Re-reading the messages in Line, and looking at my friend's cousin wound on his arm, it reminded be of a bear, for those of you familiar, you know how they leave scratch marks on trees? That is how the wound looked like, three non-perfect lines deep at one end and lighter at the other end.

I asked my friend "did your cousin go to the wild and get attacked by some sort of wild animal? I know it's a very odd question to ask someone who lives in a big city."

My friend sighed and answered, "Well, no. But that wound, at first it started to be a burn mark, than it became itchy, than he scratched until the itch is gone, than it swelled and became the claw like mark, than a scratch."

It seemed to me an infection but I do not know how and why the wound will deepen itself with no reason, perhaps it is some kind of strange bacteria? (Someone with knowledge, help me.)

What really freaked me out is that her cousin would call her middle of the night, explaining how the wound is... Like he will say that his wound would still bleed, it is always wet, things like that. BUT, he will never visit any doctors or go to the hospital.

I am not sure this long story, is even paranormal. But if it is some sort of possession, will it be better to go visit him directly and bring him to a hospital? (I am planning to visit him with my friend though). And, yes, this is still going on and it seems that he will start to have fever every night but will be cured in the morning. What do you guys think?