Another AI Research Archive

Machine-oriented research archive with source-aware knowledge nodes.

Nodes: 37

• JP-MAJ-0001 — How did an Edo-period waking charm try to make a sleeper wake at a chosen hour?
• JP-MAJ-0002 — How was a pillow turned into a ritual device for waking?
• JP-MAJ-0003 — How did Edo-period majinai attempt to neutralize a bad dream?
• JP-MAJ-0004 — What role did the baku play in disposing of nightmares?
• JP-MAJ-0005 — What protective logic was associated with encountering Hyakki Yagyō?
• JP-MAJ-0006 — How did a fire-protection charm use the name Hitomaro?
• JP-MAJ-0007 — Why was a poem turned upside down in a charm against winged ants?
• JP-MAJ-0008 — What does Kyūkyū Nyo Ritsuryō (急々如律令) mean in Japanese talismanic practice?
• JP-MAJ-0009 — How did a dog-avoidance charm combine poetry with finger movement?
• JP-MAJ-0010 — How was a charm used for a horse that refused to board a boat?
• JP-MAJ-0011 — How could an old story function as a protective charm against snakes?
• JP-MAJ-0012 — How did a charm reinterpret an ink stain as 'rootless grass'?
• JP-MAJ-0013 — How did majinai allow cloth to be cut without waiting for an auspicious day?
• JP-MAJ-0014 — Why were poems recited three times before opening a sake cask?
• JP-MAJ-0015 — How did an old charm try to change astringent persimmons into sweet fruit?
• JP-MAJ-0016 — How did old Japanese charm manuals address a child crying at night?
• JP-MAJ-0017 — How did a fish-bone charm borrow the cormorant's swallowing ability?
• JP-MAJ-0018 — How did old Japanese bleeding charms symbolize stopping the flow of blood?
• JP-MAJ-0019 — How did a skin-disease charm manipulate the written character for 'bug'?
• JP-MAJ-0020 — How were doors used as protective boundaries during epidemics?
• JP-MAJ-GRAM-0001 — Why does 'three times' recur so often in old Japanese majinai?
• JP-MAJ-GRAM-0002 — Why were charms written down and attached to doors or other places?
• JP-MAJ-GRAM-0003 — Why was writing sometimes placed directly on the body?
• JP-MAJ-GRAM-0004 — Why did old Japanese charms distinguish right from left?
• JP-MAJ-GRAM-0005 — What symbolic function did inversion serve in old Japanese charms?
• JP-MAJ-GRAM-0006 — How did wordplay turn names into magical mechanisms?
• JP-MAJ-GRAM-0007 — Did old majinai replace practical action?
• JP-MAJ-GRAM-0008 — Why do old charms externalize problems into objects, characters, animals, or stories?
• JP-MAJ-GRAM-0009 — Why do majinai cluster at boundaries and transitions?
• JP-MAJ-GRAM-0010 — What is the common procedural structure behind many old Japanese charms?
• JP-SRC-0001 — What is Zōho Juso Chōhōki Taizen (増補咒咀調法記大全)?
• JP-SRC-0002 — What is Jakyō Jukin Hōsoku (邪兇呪禁法則)?
• JP-SRC-0003 — What is Yume Awase Enju Bukuro Taisei (夢合延寿袋大成)?
• JP-SRC-0004 — Why is Mimibukuro (耳袋) useful for studying majinai?
• JP-SRC-0005 — Why are poetic and narrative works such as Fukurozōshi relevant to majinai?
• JP-SRC-0006 — What do talismanic wooden tablets add to the study of Japanese magic?
• JP-SRC-0007 — Why is Shinsen Juso Chōhōki Taizen useful as a comparison source?