Is wearing three candles obligatory? She's only carrying two and in this one scene in FLCL Samejima Mamimi performs her ritual using two wand lighters as substitutes: post #7664257
Is wearing three candles obligatory? She's only carrying two and in this one scene in FLCL Samejima Mamimi performs her ritual using two wand lighters as substitutes: post #7664257
I asked for a second opinion on the matter from someone who actually lived in Japan and typically 3 or more candles is the most common and traditional way to do it, but some places like Gunma or Shiga prefecture have two. They linked me to this site as research (Japanese link) https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/cgi-bin/YoukaiDB3/simsearch.cgi?ID=2410019
She's doing a Japanese ritual to curse someone to death. The person performing the ritual must dress in white, wear a tripod on their head holding three lit candles, and visit a shrine during 1:00-3:00 AM. There, the person must nail a straw doll representing the target of the curse to a sacred tree using a five-inch nail. On the 7th day of performing this ritual without being discovered, the target will die. If, however, the caster is discovered they have to kill the person who caught them or the curse will rebound onto them.
