Quote Originally Posted by Jaitne
They have a Japanese tale like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuchisake-onna

kirei (pretty) and kire(cut), but they only sound alike.

And a story
Cool story. She got a chelsea smile from her husband.

Japanese has lots of similar words that lead to well known puns and plays-on-words. Like oppai (breasts)/ippai (a lot) and kirei (pretty)/kirai (hate)/kire.