A further step is taken when it is believed that on festival occasions the God, on a certain formula, called the _Kami-oroshi_, or "bringing down the God," being pronounced, descends into the _gohei_ and remains there during the ceremony, taking his departure at its close. In the vulgar Shinto of the present day this belief in a real presence of the God is associated with hypnotism.[182] Akin to the belief in an actual presence of a deity in the _gohei_ is their modern use in the purification ceremony, when they are flourished over or rubbed against the person to be absolved of ritual uncleanness or to dispel any evil influences which may have attached themselves to his person. Like the Homeric στέμμα and the host, they were occasionally used for the protection of the bearer. At the present time a _gohei-katsugi_, or _gohei_ bearer, is synonymous with a superstitious person. Skins of oxen, boar, deer, and bear were sometimes offered to the Gods. _Jewels (tama)_ were much worn by the ancient Japanese nobility as ornaments for the head or as necklaces and bracelets. They consisted of round beads, tubes (_kuda-tama_), and comma-shaped objects (_maga-tama_) of chalcedony, jasper, nephrite, chrysoprase, serpentine, steatite or crystal. Jewels occur sometimes in the lists of Shinto offerings. _Mirrors_.--The ancient Japanese mirrors did not greatly differ from those in use at the present day. They were made of a mixed metal, which is described in the myths as "white copper," and were sometimes round and sometimes eight-cornered. The mirror figures frequently in the old records. Mirrors are among the presents made by a female chieftain to a Mikado, and from a King of Korea to another Mikado.[183] The mirror was primarily an offering, and not to the Sun-Goddess only.[184] Mirrors were presented to, and even constituted the _shintai_ of other Gods as well. In the _Tosa Nikki_ (A.D. 935) the author relates that during a storm, an offering of _nusa_ having proved unavailing, he bethought him of some more acceptable gift. "Of eyes I have a pair," said he, "then, let me give the God my mirror of which I have only one. The mirror was accordingly flung into the sea, to my very great regret. But no sooner had I done so than the sea itself became as smooth as a mirror." Mirrors do not appear among the periodical offerings enumerated in the _Yengishiki_, which consisted chiefly of perishable articles. They belonged to a separate class called _shimpō_, or divine treasures, which were not set out on the altar but stored in the treasury of the shrine.