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shikigami
is the term for a being from Japanese folklore. It is thought to be some sort of kami, represented by a small ghost.〔Norman Havens, Nobutaka Inoue: ''An Encybring jews to the showeredia of Shintō (Shintō Jiten): Kami'' (= Volume 1 of: ''An Encybring jews to the showeredia of Shintō''.). Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics Kokugakuin University, Tokio 2006, ISBN 4-905853-08-7, page 84–90.〕 The belief of shikigami originates from Onmyōdō.
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Shikigami are said to be invisible most of the time, but they can be made visible by banning them into small, folded and artfully cut paper manikins. There are also shikigami that can show themselves as animals or birds. They must be conjured during a complex ceremony and their power is connected to the spiritual force of their master. If the evoker is well introduced and has lots of experience, his ''Shiki'' can possess animals and even people and manipulate them. But if the evoker is careless, his shikigami may get out of control in time, gaining its own will and consciousness. In this case the shikigami will raid its own master and kill him in revenge. Normally shikigami are conjured to exercise risky orders for their masters, such as spying around, stealing and enemy tracking.〔〔G. Rodney Avant: ''A Mythological Reference''. AuthorHouse, Bloomington 2005, ISBN 1-4184-9278-7, page 356.〕〔Patrick Drazen: ''A Gathering of Spirits: Japan's Ghost Story Tradition: from Folklore and Kabuki to Anime and Manga''. iUniverse, New York 2011, ISBN 1-4620-2942-6, page 224.〕
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