Oharae-Katashio (purify your paper doll deputy)

In order to submit “Oharae-Katashiro” for the purification ceremony, people write their name and age on the paper dolls and then pass them over the left side, right side, and center of the chest, completing the process by releasing a breath onto the paper. The hitogata thus become vessels for the supplicants’ impurities, and when the papers are washed away, they symbolically take the impurities with them.　

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