An urban legend from Japan is about a purple mirror. The actual words are "murasaki kagami", and it means purple mirror. According to a certain story, there was a girl who was extremely vain and loved looking at herself in the mirror. She was given a present by her mother and it was a nice hand-mirror. She was very happy and cherished the gift., which she loved looking at. She decided to paint it purple but then afterwards, she became upset by how she looked in that mirror so she smashed it into pieces but when her 20th birthday arrived, she died. The last thing she said had been "purple mirror". There was never any trace of that broken purple mirror to be found again.
This caused rumours to spread and a number of people mysteriously died on their 20th birthdays with bits of purple glass in their possession. In some versions, the age is not 20 but 18, sometimes 15, or until leaving school. A different legend goes that a teenaged girl was in hospital for immune deficiency. Her parents gave her a hand-mirror that she painted purple by mistake and regretted it. She tried removing the paint but it was already done. She died uttering the words "purple mirror". It's now a popular curse story in Japan, which has sparked off many horror stories.
The Japanese folklore about mirrors is that they can reflect a person's nature, and not just their actual face. Some could see themselves looking horrible because it's how they felt. And it's believed mirrors can be a tool to trap spirits. There is the Ungaikyo, which is a Yokai (spirit) of a possessed mirror. These are haunted mirrors with ghosts, monsters and demons who can be revealed in the reflection. However, with the colour purple, it was so rare, as it was a very expensive colour used from dye found in the purple gromwell plant. Purple has always been associated with the ruling classes and worn by emperors and gods until modern times.
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