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Updated: May 16, 2025
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.
In consideration of his filial piety his punishment was commuted to exile on an island off the Izu coast, and in deference to the Imperial orders he remained there quietly throughout the day, but devoted the night to flying to the summit of Mount Fuji or gliding over the sea. This En no Gyoja was the founder of a sect of priests calling themselves Yamabushi.
And here and there we could discern sinister shapes, mostly of superhuman stature, some seeming to wait in dim places, others floating above the graves. Quite near us, towering above the hedge on our right, was a Buddhist priest, with his back turned to us. 'A yamabushi, an exorciser? I queried of Kinjuro. 'No, said Kinjuro; 'see how tall he is. I think that must be a Tanuki- Bozu.
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