Tomino's Hell is a poem that is supposedly cursed. It is said that if you read the poem out loud or hear it in any way, you will be horribly cursed, and bad things are destined to happen to you. If you read it in your head, nothing will happen.
Also, apparently reading it in Japanese gives you an even better chance of being cursed, since the translations are a bit rougher than the original.
The poem talks about a cute person named Tomino and their sisters in... hell? I'm not that sure. It is definitely a unique poem that takes some deciphering to get the full meaning of. It talks about odd imagery, such as seven mountains, Tomino spitting out jewels, and their sisters vomiting fire.
There's also a popular painting that goes with the poem, and a picture of it is shown above. In my opinion, I think it is very interesting, but also unsettling. The color scheme and composure of the person in the painting is definitely eerie.
There are reports of people getting intense headaches, close relatives dying, and being injured a day after reading the poem. One person read it and had their grandmother die the next day. Another reader broke their foot hours afterward.
Even with the belief that it may be because of the poem, however, there is a large possibility that is could just be a coincidence that something bad happened after reading it. People always have bad events in their life out there, and maybe one was going to happen after reading the poem no matter what. To go along with this, many people have read it, and most of them claimed that nothing happened, except that they got chills while reading it. Either way, it's up to you to decide on how to judge it.
Personally, my one friend read it out loud, and nothing happened to them other than them struggling to read Japanese.
If you do want to read the poem, click on the external link below to get a Japanese and English translation of it. The external link is around where you can leave a comment if that helps. If you are still extremely confused about where the link is, I'd recommend looking in the comment section since there are a ton of helpful people there.
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