Amabie is a 19th-century Japanese spirit (known as yokai) who is said to ward of plagues ... sometimes be a kind of pressure valve for when things get tense,” Hiroko Yoda, co-author of the ...

Tokyo - Thousands of people threw beans to ward off evil spirits and bring luck at ... bring them good health for the year, according to Japanese tradition.

As part of the Setsubun Festival at the Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, geishas dance and ... of rituals to bring good fortune and ward off evil spirits. The children and I soon followed the ...

eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried soybeans thrown at them in the hope of warding off evil spirits and inviting good luck. Japan’s annual ritual of “mame-maki,” or bean ...

The unsettling video is the product of a bizarre 400-year-old tradition in Japan and is supposed to ward off evil spirits. Article continues below The theory behind the bizarre 'crying sumo' or ...

A giant seven-foot-long 'demon slaying' sword that lay buried for more than 1,600 years has been found in Japan ... there to help the deceased ward off evil spirits in the afterlife.

eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried soybeans thrown at them in the hope of warding off evil spirits and inviting good luck. Japan’s annual ritual of “mame-maki,” or bean ...