Ushi no toki mairi
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ushi-no-toki-mairi-168-2765188
title:
Ushi no toki mairi
text:
Ushi no toki mairi or ushi no koku mairi (丑の刻参り) refers to a prescribed method of laying a curse upon a target that is traditional to Japan, so-called because it is conducted during the hours of the Ox. The practitioner—typically a scorned woman—while dressed in white and crowning herself with an iron ring set with three lit candles upright, hammers nails into a sacred tree of the Shinto shrine. In the modern-day common conception, the nails are driven through a straw effigy of the victim, impal
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Traditional Japanese method of laying a curse
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushi_no_toki_mairi
date created:
2014-04-29T07:07:48Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T21:40:39Z
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