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  2. Kodoku - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Suguru Geto - Wikipedia

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    In the main series, his corpse is controlled by Kenjaku (Japanese: 羂索, Hepburn: Kenjaku), an ancient sorcerer who uses the Cursed Technique of transplanting his brain into other bodies. Kenjaku's goal is to evolve humanity through Cursed Energy to create a new golden age of Jujutsu sorcery similar to the Heian period.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Apotropaic magic - Wikipedia

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    Another way for protection from enchantment used by the ancient Greeks was by spitting into the folds of the clothes. [ 10 ] Ancient Greeks also had an old custom of dressing boys as girls in order to avert the evil eye.

  6. Jujutsu Kaisen - Wikipedia

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    Jujutsu Kaisen (呪術廻戦, rgh. "Sorcery Battle") [a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami.It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from March 2018 to September 2024, with its chapters collected in 30 tankōbon volumes.

  7. Methods of divination - Wikipedia

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    apantomancy / ə ˈ p æ n t oʊ m æ n s i /: by chance encounters with animals (Greek apantein, ' to encounter ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') arachnomancy / ə ˈ r æ k n oʊ m æ n s i / : by spiders (Greek arakhnē , ' spider ' + manteía , ' prophecy ' )

  8. Onmyōdō - Wikipedia

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    Abe no Seimei, a famous onmyōji. Onmyōdō (陰陽道, also In'yōdō, lit. ' The Way of Yin and Yang ') is a technique that uses knowledge of astronomy and calendars to divine good fortune in terms of date, time, direction and general personal affairs, originating from the philosophy of the yin-yang and the five elements.

  9. Megumi Fushiguro - Wikipedia

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    Megumi Fushiguro (Japanese: 伏黒 恵, Hepburn: Fushiguro Megumi) is a fictional character of the manga series Jujutsu Kaisen created by Gege Akutami.He is a first-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High, an academy to become a Jujutsu Sorcerer and develop Cursed Techniques to fight against Cursed Spirits, beings manifested from Cursed Energy due to negative emotions flowing from humans.