The Ainu and their folk-lore / by John Batchelor.

  • John Batchelor
Date:
1901
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Credit: The Ainu and their folk-lore / by John Batchelor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    certain in its operations and more obnoxious to the disease. Not only so, but I have often seen small ones so extensively used as to be nailed on the window-frames and door-posts of nearly every Ainu hut in the village, the special purpose of which is acknowledged to be the keeping out of sickness. The smaller ones, however, are not worshipped; and the only difference 1 can discover between the raison d'etre of these and that of the horse-shoes Chikappo-chikomesup, or Little Carved Birds. one may sometimes see nailed to doors, gates and posts in country places in England, is that the former are intended to keep misfortune and ill- luck out, and the latter to bring fortune and prosperity in. The particular number of shavings to be left on the sticks is left to the religious taste and theological ideas of the individual. Some have six left on them, and are therefore called nvan rapushbe mao, i.e. ‘ six- winged inao ’ ; others have seven, and are called