[291] After the manner of the Oho-harahi offerings. [292] 'The Golden Bough,' second edition, p. 9. [293] I cannot offer any explanation of the magic used by women and children in order to bring fine weather. They hang upside down to the eaves or on the branch of a tree human figures cut in paper, and called _Teri-teri-bōzu_ (shine-shine-priest). [294] See above, p. 115. [295] I. 157. [296] 'The Mikado's Empire,' p. 474. [297] See also Ch. K. 263. [298] According to Van Helmont, the reason why bull's fat is so powerful in a vulnerary ointment is that the bull at the time of slaughter is full of secret reluctancy and vindictive murmurs, and therefore dies with a higher flame of revenge about him than any other animal. [299] See 'Primitive Culture,' i. 116, where numerous examples of symbolic magic are given. [300] See above, p. 187. [301] The _Tsuchigumo_ (earth-hiders) were men of a low class, who lived in dwellings sunk in the earth, and gave much trouble to the Japanese Government in ancient times. Dr. Tylor, in his 'Primitive Culture,' i. 113, has noted the tendency to attribute magical powers to pariahs and foreigners. Sukunabikona, the teacher of magic to Japan, came from abroad. [302] See above, p. 115. [303] See above, p. 106. [304] See p. 292. [305] _Nihongi_, ii. 82. [306] See above, p. 294. [307] Koyane. Hirata speaks with scorn of the Chinese methods of divining current in Japan in later times, in which no invocation of the Gods was used. Sometimes other Gods, and even Buddhas, were invoked. [308] "The King of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to perform divination."--Ezekiel xxi. 21. [309] Pausanias says that in ancient Greece the inquirer, after asking his question of the God and making his offering, took as the divine answer the first words he might hear on quitting the sanctuary. [310] The date of the festival of the Sahe no Kami. [311] See above, p. 193. [312] The _Kami-yori-ita_ (God-resort-board), struck in later times to bring down the Gods, is believed to be a substitute for this harp. [313] It is not known who these Gods were. [314] Smaller _gohei_ used in the _harahi_ ceremony. [315] Weston, 'Mountaineering in the Japanese Alps,' p. 307. See also Index, _Inugami_; and Mr. Chamberlain's 'Things Japanese,' third edition, p. 110. [316] Compare the story of Gideon's fleece in Judges vi. 37. See also _Nihongi_, I. 237, and Ch. K. 194. [317] 'Sociology,' i. 154. [318] See Mr. P. Lowell's 'Occult Japan,' p. 36. [319] _Kannushi_. [320] Saniha (pure court) is explained as the official who examines the utterances prompted by the Deity. [321] At the battle of Dannoüra, in 1184. [322] _In-musubi_, a Chinese practice. [323] A Buddhist religious implement. [324] A Buddhist deity. The incense is also Buddhist. [325] See above, p. 332. [326] An excellent account of a Japanese hypnotic _séance_ is given in Mr. Weston's 'Mountaineering in the Japanese Alps,' p. 282.