丑の刻参り
"Shrine visit on the hour of the ox". A Japanese ritual to curse someone to death. The person performing the ritual must dress in white, wear a tripod on their head holding three lit candles, and visit a shrine during the hour of the ox (1:00-3:00 AM). There, the person must nail a [[straw doll]] representing the target of the curse to a sacred tree using a five-inch nail. On the seventh day of performing this ritual without being discovered, the target will die.
Commonly associated with [[Mizuhashi Parsee]] due to the Bridge Princess character she's based on being the origin of the ritual, and one of her Spell Cards being named after it.

Since the image of a nail driven through a straw doll is ubiquitous to represent curses, this tag should be reserved for traditional portrayals of the ritual.

For another case where a character is wearing candles on their head (especially a number other than three), without the other parts of this ritual (i.e. no [[mallet]], [[hammer]], [[straw doll]], or [[nail (hardware)|]]s), it might instead be a reference to the youkai [[Hashihime]].

h4. External links
* "Wikipedia - Ushi no Toki Mairi":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushi_no_toki_mairi]
* "Wikipedia (Japanese) - Ushi no Koku Mairi":[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%91%E3%81%AE%E5%88%BB%E5%8F%82%E3%82%8A]
* "Pixiv Encyclopedia - Ushi no Koku Mairi":[https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E4%B8%91%E3%81%AE%E5%88%BB%E5%8F%82%E3%82%8A]
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