While they're singing What a Friend we Have in Shinto, we'll be bringing the pain
Posted on 06/17/2022 8:22:41 AM PDT by DFG
Police in the Japanese town of Matsudo arrested a 72-year-old man on Wednesday for allegedly attempting to curse Russian leader Vladimir Putin by nailing a straw doll bearing a photo of Putin’s face to a sacred Shinto shrine tree and including a note inside the doll’s breast wishing death to the leader, Kyodo News reported.
The Matsudo-Higashi Police Station announced on June 15 that its officers arrested Mitsunobu Hino, 72, on suspicion of “breaking and entering and damaging property” at the local Mikazuki Shrine at approximately 2:10 p.m. on May 19. Security camera footage captured the man as he trespassed onto the shrine’s grounds. He is believed to have created “4-centimeter-deep holes” in a sacred “shinboku” tree so that he could affix his straw doll to the shrine.
“The face of the doll had what looked like a photo of Putin’s face attached with the kanji character for bad luck written on its forehead. Hammering a nail into a straw doll is a traditional form of placing a curse on the individual the doll represents, akin to voodoo dolls,” Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper noted on Thursday.
“The police have confirmed similar Putin straw dolls at more than 10 shrines in the eastern Japan city since May, and said there is a strong chance the perpetrator is the same due to resemblances in the dolls’ sizes and the handwriting on the accompanying notes,” Kyodo News observed on Wednesday.
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Asian voodoo man 🤪
The FBI will be right over to investigate.
I’ll bet it was another world “leader” and not the evil price gouging putin. 😊
Does anyone know where Zelensky was on Wednesday?
Japan. Why?
We’re not the only country to have swapped masks for Ukrainian flags.
Mass Formation Psychosis.
I would have left it up for at least a week.
i did not know that “juju” was in Japan!
“judo”, yes, but not “juju”.
“Y’all nail that sucker tight to the floor, y’hear?”
For every 1 caught, 10 get through.
I might get some Putin toilet paper.
Swell, now the world will never know if those things really work,or not. Thanks for ruining science Japan!
Nippon Woketard.
Does that stuff really work?
OK
I love every word(s) of that headline.
Japan
Man
Putin
Curse Doll
Shinto Shrine
Very cross-cultural/inclusive.
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