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The character Soichi Tsujii from the manga Junji Ito Collection used this way to curse people. The Curse Devil from the manga Chainsaw Man can be summoned through the use of nails or something that resembles them (i.e. a spike-like sword); after its victim is "nailed" three times, the devil will appear and finish them off.
Kodoku (蠱毒, 'curse poison'), also called kodō (蠱道, 'curse method'), kojutsu (蠱術, 'curse technique'), and fuko (巫蠱, 'sorcery curse') is a type of poisonous magic found in Japanese folklore. It is the Japanese derivative of the Chinese gu magic. It is said to have been widely used in ancient China.
Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or Kun-yomi of the characters; as it became customary to prefer Chinese readings in official announcements, only the term seppuku was ever used in writing. So hara-kiri is a spoken term, but only to commoners and seppuku a written term, but spoken amongst higher classes for the same act.
In Japanese culture, social hierarchy plays a significant role in the way someone speaks to the various people they interact with on a day-to-day basis. [5] Choice on level of speech, politeness, body language and appropriate content is assessed on a situational basis, [6] and intentional misuse of these social cues can be offensive to the listener in conversation.
When used as a plot device, they involve one character placing a curse or hex over another character. This is distinguished from adverse spells and premonitions and other such plot devices. Examples of the curse as a plot device: Rigoletto – Count Monterone places a curse on Rigoletto. Rigoletto blames the climactic death of his daughter on ...
Ikiryō (生霊) from the 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama. Ikiryō (生霊, lit. "living ghost"), also known as shōryō (しょうりょう), seirei (せいれい), or ikisudama (いきすだま), [1] is a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese popular belief and fiction that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people or places, sometimes across ...
A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy, in a case that sparked concern among Japanese expats living in China. The sentence for the knife ...
khí-kàn (Chinese: 起姦) = start scolding someone in vulgarity, start swearing; kàn kha-tshng (Chinese: 姦尻川) = sodomy, anal or oral sex; káu-kàn-tūi(Chinese: 狗姦懟 ) = to curse someone being fucked/raped by a dog; hō͘-káu-kàn-kàn leh (Chinese: 予狗姦姦咧) = to curse someone to be fucked by a dog