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Hara-no-mushi: The Parasitic Entities In Your Body
According to an acupuncture textbook from 1568 by acupuncturist Jikai Ibaraki [茨木 二介] (n/a), there are a total of 63 kinds of parasitic entities called Hara-no-mushi [腹の虫] like the ones seen below that causes different psychological or physical illnesses¹ and there's a whole culture of practices involving folk medicine as well as ritual designed to get rid of these obnoxious, supernatural critters from your body.
(artwork by Sam Kalensky)
Few Examples²:
Residing in people's spleens, Hishaku [脾積] (above) is a parasite which loves sweet flavors and singing. They can be removed by applying acupuncture needles around the person's bellybutton.
Causing symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea, Kakuran-no-mushi [霍乱の虫] (above) inhabits in people's liver by wrapping themselves around the organ, but would often come out from the person's mouth. Forcefully yanking them out once they emerge would greatly weaken them, but they'll quickly hide back inside via the digestive tract once they get freed. Ingesting herbal concoction made of Evodiae fructus broth, Plantago seed, and Saussureae radix is used to get rid of them.
Koshinuke-no-mushi [腰抜けの虫] (above) is a parasite which inhabits in people's hip. This entity would cause people to experience loose stool, perspiration, and chest discomfort. Herbal concoction made of Glycyrrhiza/liquorice root and Saussureae radix is applied to rid them.
Background History:
The earliest mentions of harmful entities living in human body can be traced back to Táng Dynasty China via the Daoist text "Daijō-sanshi-chūkei" [太上三尸中経] which describes about three entities called Sanshi [三尸] (above) which inhabits in people's brain, abdomen, and legs. Jōshi [上尸] is a blue or black colored entity that lives inside people brain that causes headaches and any other illness below the person's neck as well as making people become stingy. Chūshi [中尸] is a white, blue, or yellow colored entity residing in people's abdomen. This parasite causes disease in various internal organs and gluttony. Finally, Geshi [下尸] is a white or black colored entity that lives in people's legs and causes various illnesses below the person's waist as well as making people lustful. However, these attributes are nowhere close to what Sanshi are truly capable of.
In the ancient Chinese calendar system, the day of Kano-esaru [庚申] comes once every 60 days and if a person sleeps that night, Sanshi would emerge from the person's body to ascend to heaven. This is so that they may report all the bad doings of the person who they inhabited to Tian-di/Tentei [天帝] or the "Heavenly Emperor" and as punishment, the Emperor would shorten the person's life accordingly. The only way to prevent this from happening is, obviously, not falling asleep at the night of Kano-esaru. Hence, an event called Shukōshin'e [守庚申会] was held in order to stay awake. This event later came to be known as Kōshin-machi [庚申待ち] when it was introduced to Japan during the Heian Period where nobles held feasts and worshipping Tentei, Shōmen-kongō [青面金剛], and/or Sarutabiko-no-kami [猿田毘古神] at night near Kōshin-tō [庚申塔] stone idol (like the one above from Tsukudo-hachiman Shrine [筑土八幡神社] in Tsukudo-hachiman Town [筑土八幡町], Shinjuku Ward [新宿区], Tōkyō). By Edo Period, Kōshin-machi gained popularity amongst Commers throughout Japan as well.³
Ritualistic Removal Methods:
Other then the herbal medicines mentioned before, there are different folk practices to remove Hara-no-mushi. Mushikirigama [虫切鎌] (above left) for example, are old, rusty sickles that's stored in a stone jar hidden under a rock within Ōjōzan Shrine [王城山神社] (Naganohara Town [長野原町], Agatsuma Dist. [吾妻郡], Gunma Prefecture) (above right). The sickles are used to destroy Kan-no-mushi (e.g.: a class of Hara-no-mushi which effects infants specifically by making them throw tantrums and other complications⁴) where a parent would trace a "x" symbol on the child's chest. However, the parent who used one Mushikirigama ought to place two sickle blades inside the stone jar the next year as a sign of gratitude; a rite called Imikama-shinji [忌鎌神事].⁵ There are also specialized talisman for preventing Hara-no-mushi from invading your body. Like this talisman seen below issued from Honkō Temple [本光寺] in Ichikawa City [市川市] (Chiba Prefecture) is used for casting Kan-no-mushi out of hundred days to seven years old infants. To activate this talisman, the parent would install it on bedroom's wall by striking a needle through the center of overlapping circular pattern with the writings either facing South, Southeast, or East.⁶
This post was inspired by Sam Kalensky's artworks on Hara-no-mushi like the ones included at the very beginning and below. Sam's quirky, yet adorable character design of them made me immediately fall in love with their work and I implore everyone to go check out their other works on Twitter!
Sources:
1. Via Kyūshū National Museum [九州国立博物館] online repository
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3. "Kōshin-shinkō" [庚申信仰] (1956) by Noritada Kubo [窪 徳忠] (1913-2010)
4. Via Kotobanku
5. Via Asama-Agatsuma Ecotourism Association [浅間 吾妻エコツーリズム協会] website
6. Via Honkō Temple website
Death Witch Altar Ideas
If a witch chooses to keep an altar as part of their practice, it is their choice what items and tools they display and/or use. These are just a few ideas I have taken from my personal altars. Feel free to use anything for your altar that feels right. These are just suggestions!
Tools Athame (Knife) - Can be used similarly to a wand if desired or to prepare offerings, incense, etc. Any safe metal is appropriate and a bone handle is a plus! Many use them for display or as protection talismans.
Wand - Can be used as an extension of your hand to channel energy, point, or draw sigils within a circle or as part of a spell. Metal, bone, wood, or crystal wands all work equally well.
Candles - Either to use in spells, to create atmosphere, or to burn during meditation. Black, white, red, silver and gold candles work well and metal candleholders or candlesticks compliment death work.
Cauldron - Often used to burn offerings, spells, or incense.
Offering Dish - Primarily used to place offerings on the altars. I prefer bowls so that liquid offerings can be given. I prefer to designate one vessel for food/drink and others for unrelated offerings.
Crystals - Can be used for spell work, to cleanse or protect an altar, or as decoration. Some excellent choices are onyx, obsidian, tourmaline, pyrite, clear quartz, and hematite.
Other Plants/Terrariums - I love using graveyard dirt and moss collected at cemeteries to make small terrariums for my altar to give me a task at my altar each day. Living plants can also be tended on an altar.
Skulls, Bones, Mummies - This may be a given, but oddities like these are excellent representations of death (skulls, bones, mummies, wet specimens, mounted insects, etc.).
Graveyard Dirt - I like to keep a small amount of graveyard dirt on my altar at all times. Ensure this is collected ethically and with respect.
Art - Visual representations help motivate a lot of my practice and keeping my altar beautiful aesthetically supports my craft. Keeping figurines, prints, paintings, etc. on or around your altar may be a source of inspiration.
Photographs - If your craft is centered around ancestor veneration, grief practices, or funerary rights, than it might be appropriate to keep photos of deceased relatives/friends/pets on your altar.
Altar Themes: Dieties Mushrooms/Fungi Ancestor Veneration Decomposition Life Cycle Funerary Rites
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My Liminal Spaces of Death Energy
Throughout my years of being a witch, I have traveled up and down the east coast, meeting different energies along the way. This post will include my personal experiences of death energy inside certain spaces I have been and continue to use as a death witch. This is just a fun post for me to do and I hope it will bring you all some fun experiences on your journey with death's energy. Enjoy!
First off, what does the word liminal mean?
In the book Weave the Liminal, by Laura Tempest Zakroff, we find the quote:
"So much of the experience of being a Witch and practicing Witchcraft is hard to put into words. However, liminal is one of those words that gets pretty close to describing much of what we sense. It is a good objective that captures that sense of there-but-not-quite as a sensation. Applied as a noun, it gives name to the in-between places we traverse as spirits still connected to the physical realm-while we work with spirits of other realms. What we call those realms has a lot to do with what culture we belong to, what myths we subscribe to, and how we view the invisible and the unknown. But they all find a home in the word liminal."
Dictionary.com gives us this meaning of liminal:
Liminal is an adjective that’s used to describe things that exist at the threshold (or border) between one thing and another.
So, what's a liminal space?
Liminal is the threshold between one thing and another, a border between things seen and unseen. It is the sensation we are here, but there is something else before us.
Put together with witchcraft, a liminal space is the door between our physical realm and the realm of other worlds. It is a doorway we can sense and feel, sometimes see, different energies and beings. Higher energies reside here, and are great for workings!
You know that sensation you get when standing in a space that feels like there is something there? When you look upon something and realize you are not alone? This is a liminal space.
Liminal Spaces of Death
Some spaces can be accessed at any time, others have limited openings. Please, be aware of your surroundings and do not attend alone if you are able to. These are my experiences, but most can be accessed at anytime. The times I use are when I experienced energies at their highest. Please, be safe.
A river or creek at dawn
Restroom stops on a large highway at 1 a.m.
Tree stumps in the middle of a forest
24 hour convenient stores at 3 in the morning
Bridges over a body of water (creeks, rivers, lakes) when no one else is around
Standing before the ocean at dawn
Abandoned buildings covered in graffiti at dusk
A dirt road surrounded by trees when fog and little light is visible
Driving down a major highway when everyone else is asleep
Hotel lobbies and hallways after 10 pm until 4 am
The silence after a concert is finished and everyone has left
Riding a bicycle or walking through a large cemetery (when there are paths and permissions to do so, of course)
Walking through Main Street of a small town after midnight
Sitting on a porch watching rainstorms from midnight to 8 am
Cleaning out gardens in early spring
Entrances to cemeteries
Museums just after opening and right before closing time
Antique shops and thrift stores
Exploring landmarks of history
Graffiti art that has begun to wash away
What can I do in these places?
Well, let me tell you!
Meditate
Collect energy from these places and store it for later use
Leave offerings
Ask to work with beings/begin working with beings of these spaces
Find objects from these spaces (with permission) to take home and draw energy from in workings at home
Access these spaces in lucid dreaming or astral projection as a doorway into other worlds
There are many different ideas to do in these spaces! Do some research and find what works best for your practice!
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Anger, fear, grief, exhaustion... are all emotions that can be used in witchcraft. Learn how to wield them properly, and see just how much power they hold in your craft. Just like a weapon.
The Death Witch’s Personal Graveyard
I think at least some of us have been in this situation; you want to practice death magick but you don’t have access to graveyard. Don’t worry! I’ve come across the perfect solution. Simply make your own!
Step 1: Figure out where you want your graveyard to be. It’s going to be small so you don’t need that much space. My graveyard is in a glazed clay box my grandma made for me, but you can also make it outside.
Step 2: If you’re doing yours in a box like me, pour dirt into the bottom of the box and flatten it out. If you’re graveyard is outside, make sure you’re satisfied with the dirt.
Step 3: Find a flat rock that fits in your graveyard. This is the headstone. If you want, you can write a message on it or a rune, but I left mine blank.
Step 4: Decorate! You can add crystals, rocks, herbs, statues and plants! Whatever you think should go in your graveyard.
Step 5: Dedicate your graveyard to any wandering, grave-less spirits. This is a place for them to live and take refuge. If you want, you can set rules for them and bar certain spirits.
Now, whenever you need graveyard dirt, you can just go to your graveyard and ask any spirits living there and leave an offering.
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