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Japanese folklore replete with ghosts and a variety of spirits – good and evil. Among other things, it has stories about mystical dolls based on very real events.
Where did the Okiku doll come from?
I learned about a creepy Japanese doll named Okiku the whole world. And its history began a century ago, in 1918. Then seventeen-year-old youth Eikichi Suzuki, wanting to make a gift two-year-old sister Okiku, bought a doll in a shop on the street Tanuki Koji in Sapporo (Hokkaido Island).
The girl was very happy with the new toy and not parted with her, even took with her for a walk. She is so she loved her doll that she called her by her own name. Suddenly, the child became very ill, moreover, after some time died of flu complications.
In memory of her beloved daughter, and also because of her affection for the doll placed the toy in the home altar where daily prayed for Okiku. Soon they began to notice something strange. Doll’s hair, black and straight, became invisible to everyone increase in length – they grew as if they were alive! .. And when they went down to their knees, the family finally believed that in a doll, apparently, the spirit of the dead Okiku was infused. Parents began to trim the doll’s hair, and each time they again grew to the level of the knees and stopped. It was such hair that the deceased had girls.
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In 1938, the family moved to Sakhalin, but the doll afraid to take. Her spouses brought to Mannenji Temple that is located in Iwamizawa and, having given it to the minister, was told about amazing hair of this weird toy. Temple attendant not frightened, but, on the contrary, placed Okiku-doll in the most prominent place in a wooden box specially made for this purpose.
There she is to this day. Ministers periodically cut the doll’s hair, which grows at the same rate as in a small child, and the structure is corresponding.
Can the Okiku doll phenomenon be explained scientifically of view
There are several versions regarding this phenomenon. For example, that the spirit of the girl after her death did not have time for for some reason (unknown to us) to leave our world and got lost among the living. The ghost of three-year-old Okiku has made the only true (even the original) step, having settled in your favorite toy. Thanks this Okik seems to have received a second life, so the inherent The property – hair growth – passed on to the doll for a man.
According to another version, the perpetrators of the incident were relatives of the deceased girl who grieve so much that in thoughts gave the doll features of Okiku. Thought is known to possess tremendous power, so the girl did not rest in peace, but became a prisoner of her own doll.
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Be that as it may, there is an indisputable fact: the toy Okiku has constantly growing hair. But this is a mystical quality. is acquired since the doll was originally completely ordinary. It became unusual due to tragic circumstances. By the way, eyewitnesses testify that the toy is indeed it seems alive, so it’s terrible to look at her.
Although Okiku’s story has long been known to the whole world, her mystery remains unresolved. No one still dared to investigate this phenomenon, or maybe this Mannenji ministers are opposed. True, once the hair is mysterious the dolls took for analysis, which showed that they really human. However, at the beginning of the last century, many dolls made using human hair, and therefore circumstance says little about …
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