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  2. Ryomen Sukuna - Wikipedia

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    Ryomen Sukuna (Japanese: 両面 宿儺, Hepburn: Ryōmen Sukuna) is a fictional character and one of the central antagonists of the manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen created by Gege Akutami. A Heian Era sorcerer, he was once known notoriously as the King of Curses and well known as the greatest Sorcerer to ever live.

  3. Chinese sorcery scares - Wikipedia

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    Chinese sorcery scares refer to a series of moral panics or mass hysteria events in Imperial China, occurring in 1768, 1810, 1876, and 1908. [1] These scares were characterized by widespread fears of sorcery practices, particularly "soul-stealing," a form of alleged magic believed to cause illness or death.

  4. List of Jujutsu Kaisen characters - Wikipedia

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    She is a new sorcerer who symbiotically shares her body with an ancient Heian Era sorcerer called Angel (天使, Tenshi), similarly to Yuji and Sukuna's situation. Their Cursed Technique Technique Extinguishment ( 術式の消滅 , Jutsushiki no Shōmetsu ) can extinguish any Cursed Technique, making them a valuable ally to rescue Gojo out of ...

  5. Jujutsu Kaisen - Wikipedia

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    Before dying, Kenjaku makes Sukuna the Culling Games' master. The Jujutsu Sorcerers attempt to fight Sukuna in Gojo's place, but all are overpowered as Sukuna revives to his true form. In a flashback, it is revealed that Sukuna ate his twin brother in the womb a thousand years ago. The twin's soul reincarnated in the current era as Jin Itadori ...

  6. Wu (shaman) - Wikipedia

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    Accepting the tradition that Chinese shamans were women (i.e., wu 巫 "shamaness" as opposed to xi 覡 "shaman"), Kagan believes: One of the main themes in Chinese history is the unsuccessful attempt by the male Confucian orthodoxy to strip women of their public and sacred powers and to limit them to a role of service ... Confucianists ...

  7. Kodoku - Wikipedia

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    Kotoribako and Ryoumen Sukuna (elements of Japanese folklore and Kowabana, Japanese scary stories usually spread by rumors and forums) may have been created by using some variant of the Kodoku Magic. In the Manga series Yu-Gi-Oh , the Millennium Items are created by sacrificing a certain number of "evil" (poisonous) people, and are clearly ...

  8. Yuji Itadori - Wikipedia

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    Yuji is a first-year Jujutsu Sorcerer at Tokyo Jujutsu High who is thrown into the world of sorcery after he ate a Cursed Object: a finger belonging to Ryomen Sukuna, a powerful sorcerer from the Heian period of Japan. With his classmates, Yuji exorcises Curses while trying to honor his grandfather's legacy and save others unconditionally so ...

  9. List of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore and fiction originating from traditional folk culture and contemporary literature.. The list includes creatures from ancient classics (such as the Discourses of the States, Classic of Mountains and Seas, and In Search of the Supernatural) literature from the Gods and Demons genre of fiction, (for example, the Journey to the ...