So, Parsee wears candles on her head because of some tradition. But in Sweden there's also a tradition of women wearing candles on their head – Saint Lucy's Day (that was yesterday, 13th December). I wonder if it's related in any way. Maybe Parsee is actually celebrating advent and St Lucy's day Marked for deletion (Old)
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true. its true. Once teh candles are used up, the girls hair will start to burn. Usually the one who's Lucia always ends up dead.
Parsee is about to go to a shrine in the deepest night and cast death curse by nailing the doll representing the person she wants dead to a sacred object, nail going a certain body part pointing the spirit where the death should begin or cause death. Nailed to something like a tree or the shrine gate each night - the more the better, i think the usual peroid is a week, one daily.I think you can be tried for attempted murder in japan for it but im not sure or at least an intent to murder.The saint portrayed with a candle crown is almost certainly related to the tradition of the church waiting for the birth of ChristIn catholicism there are 4 candles and it is lit just before the altar, each candle for another week of the advent peroid, stacking with one extra each week until Christmas, symbolising 4000 years of the world since the beginning of the relation of God with humankind, waiting for a promised messiah. Each candle being a millenium.She just seems to wear more than that.I havent read much lives of saints, so I cant make out anything besides that.The fact it is in december makes me very confident that this is the root.
"Hashihime is a lady, oni or a goddess who appears in legends about bridges. She is also called Uji no Hashihime.She appears in many legends and has various aspects, but the two major ones are the 'Jealous Oni' encountered and killed by Minamoto no Tsuna at Ichijo Modori-bashi Bridge, and the 'Guardian kami of the bridge' enshrined in Hashihime-jinja Shrine near Uji-bashi Bridge.The story can be summarized as follows:During the reign of Emperor Saga (809-825), a daughter of a court noble who had become filled with envy shut herself away in Kibune-jinja Shrine, praying:"O Great Myojin Kami of Kibune, please change me into a Kijin (oni goddess) while I am still alive." "I want to possess and kill a woman I envy." The Myojin God felt sorry and told her, "If you really want to become an oni, change your appearance and soak in the Uji-gawa River for 21 days."After the woman returned to Heiankyo (the former name of Kyoto), she made five horns by separating her hair into five parts, she painted herself red by putting cinnabar on her face and red lead paint on her body, put a tetsuwa (a three-legged iron stand) upside down on her head, put lit torches on the three legs and put a torch burning at both ends into her mouth, making five fires in total. Late that night, she ran south on Yamato-oji Street, and those who saw her fell and died of shock at seeing such an oni-like figure. Then she soaked in the Uji-gawa river for 21 days and, as Kibune Daimyojin had said, she became an oni while she was still alive.This is 'Uji no Hashihime.'She killed the woman she envied, then the woman's relatives, the relatives of the woman's man, and finally just anybody."
>>127415Pic rel is how the Uji-bashi bridge (Parsee's original bridge) looks like nowadays