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Children's Museum of Stockton: Stockton: San Joaquin: Children's: website: Clovis Museum: Clovis: Fresno: Local history: website, operated by the Clovis-Big Dry Creek Historical Society Coarsegold Historic Museum: Coarsegold: Madera: Open air: website, complex includes an adobe freight way-station, one-room school and the barn with museum ...
Oiwa Shrine Believed to be the former home of a woman who was murdered by her husband. [1] Hachiōji Castle An abandoned castle site. Visitors to the ruins claim to hear the screams of women. [5] [6] Prudential Tower In 1982, a fire in the building killed 33 people, making people believe it to be haunted. [7] [8] Akasaka Mansion hotel
Majority of these man-made shrine structures (along with the materials assigned to shrine traditions such as statues home to anitos, statues reserved for burial practices in the future, and documents with indigenous writings and calligraphy) [15] were unfortunately destroyed [16] by the Spanish in the 16th century, while transforming the land ...
An illustration from an 1866 Japanese book. Mahoraga, who is an incarnation of Bodhisattva Kannon in this scene, gives a sermon to folks. The Mahoraga are one of the eight classes of deities (aṣṭasenā) that are said to protect the Dharma. They are described as huge subterranean serpents who lie on their sides and rotate the earth, which ...
In these cases the mo phi may conduct a ritual in order to confine the dangerous ghost to an earthen jar, which may be sealed and thrown into a deep canal, river or lake. [6] The persistence of folk belief in malevolent spirits was demonstrated in a 2017 case occurring at Ban Na Bong, Nong Kung Si District, Kalasin Province.
A spirit house is a shrine to the protective spirit of a place that is found in the Southeast Asian countries of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. They are normally in the form of small roofed structure mounted on a pillar or a dais , and can range in size from small platforms to houses large ...
A spirit that washes azuki beans on the shoreline of a river or other body of water. Azukibabaa An old woman yōkai who grinds azuki beans but would much rather devour a person. Azukihakari A yōkai that is only sound, like a poltergeist. It makes the sound of red beans being sown on the floor in the house it haunts, gradually becoming louder.
The New Kingdom Gurob Shrine Papyrus is a fragment of a workman's designs for a portable altar. It dates perhaps to the 18th Dynasty. One of the best-known artifacts of Ancient Egypt is the Anubis Shrine, which is in a portable form, placed atop a palanquin. The statue of a recumbent jackal is attached to the roof of the shrine.