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It not infrequently happens that the victims of fox-possession are cruelly treated by their relatives being severely burned and beaten in the hope that the fox may be thus driven away. Then the Hoin or Yamabushi is sent for the exorciser. The exorciser argues with the fox, who speaks through the mouth of the possessed.
Wrestlers, as a class, boast of their immunity from fox-possession, and care neither for kitsune-mochi nor for their spectral friends. Very strong men are believed to be proof against all such goblinry.
Year by year fewer victims of fox-possession are taken to the hospitals to be treated according to the best scientific methods by Japanese physicians who speak German. The cause is not to be found in the decadence of the old faiths: a superstition outlives a religion.
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