List of Superstition games from any cultures and why is it horrifying?

[LilTV1155]

Suppose that you want to write a horror story involving seemingly harmless children games that take a dark turn under special circumstances bring a sense of both psychological and supernatural horrors. But most of the superstition games you wanted to tried writing about are either mostly European, Japanese, and or unknown in nature. What other games do you know of?
----

List of Superstition Games associated with Horror of Psychological & Culturally Supernatural, and Why?
Any of these games should come from various cultures, what are their histories and why do you think those games are creepy?

Requirements:

- Any game that involve cultural superstitions and taboos, Don't Do / Must Do rules

- Used to be played by children but become dangerous under specific conditions or because of its supernatural elements

- Can be played by adults seeking to disprove the lore and chasing supernatural thrills

- Must involve specific rituals that can
- - Either summon or allow players to see the entities - demons, ghosts, fairies, gods, monsters, and otherworld such as the dead
- - Or enter another dimensions / otherworld - such as walking into the Netherworld, Lands of the Dead where living should not be found

- - Involve survival or escape mechanisms to force end the games

- What are the lore associated with those dangerous supernatural games?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

There was an entire Hulu series about the "Light as a feather/Stiff as a board" party stunt.

The whole Ouiji board shenanigans (it was VERY LOOSELY based on a "spirit board" but meant solely as a toy... and got a ton of weird stuff attached to it as a result).

Ring Around the Roses is a chant about the Black Plague and some claim it can summon it.

The Netflix series "Squid Games" touched on some ideas involving this as well, but not as much as the Hulu series did (Squid Games focused more on the games that resulted from the lore than the lore itself).

And there's the whole "Bloody Mary" thing that was an urban legend until Hollywood made it a "thing" - if you chant her name five times while looking at your own reflection, you summon her spirit, and if you look away from her empty eye sockets, she will be able to enter the world and kill you or someone you love (if you meet her gaze you will likely go mad but she can't escape the mirror and will eventually go away)