Ringo!

No, not Ringo, the 1998 Hideo Nakata horror movie starring Nanako Matsushima and Hiroyuki Sanada but my ringo. The Japanese Ringo which had once been touted the most frightening horror Japanese movie was said to have been inspired by the Japanese folk tale about a beautiful maid who refused the amorous advances of the  samurai Aoyama Tessan. The samurai had then tricked her into believing that she had lost one of the family's ten precious delft plates and would overlook the matter if she became his lover. When she refused, she was thrown into a well upon which she became a ghost who would count to nine and then shrieked.  It was believed that even in death, she was tormented by the missing plate. Only later, when an exorcist shouted ten in a loud voice at the end of her count did her torment ceased. Her ghost was  finally relieved that someone had found the plate for her. Ah, about my Ringo. I have just lost a diamond ring that I had bought in Chiengmai, Thailand many years back. Losing a ring that had been with you is just like losing someone dear. Deep attachment not just to people but material things do bring forth such sorrow ! Ah, perhaps, that's why we have to make do without attachment!