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The tale Of A Mirror and a Bell actually encompasses two tales, woven together by the superstitious notion of nazoraeru (準える) wherein one object is spiritually replaced by another. In addition to the tales themselves, of considerable import here is Hearn’s explanation of the “little man of straw” which if impaled “with nails not less than five inches long, to some tree in a temple-grove at the Hour of the Ox” is done with the intent that “the person, imaginatively represented by that little straw man, should die thereafter in atrocious agony”. (vía Kwaidan - Of A Mirror and A Bell)
