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The Evil Ones - 2

Back in 1972, I overheard my grandfather telling my mom a story about a good friend of his. First of all, let's call my grandfather's friend "Masa". Both my grandfather and his friend Masa are both "Nissei" or second generation of Japanese here on the island of Oahu. This is the story he told my mom: My grandfather was invited to Masa's family party. After a couple of hours, Masa began acting strange. He started to act like a real dog! He sat like a dog, barked like a dog, and had all the mannerisms of a real dog. Some of the people at the party began to laugh because they thought that Masa was joking around. After about 20 minutes, no one was laughing anymore. The elder members of Masa's family began to whisper the word "Inugami". Masa did not return to normal. An urgent call was made to an Odaisan or Japanese priest. An exorcism was set at a Hongwangi (Japanese church...which by the way is still standing and being used to this day). The Odaisan asked some of the family members if Masa chased his tail and caught it. My grandfather said he had no idea what that meant. Since my grandfather is a good friend of Masa's family, they asked him if he would assist in the exorcism by being there for both moral support and for using his strength to restrain Masa should he react violently to the exorcism. My grandfather said yes and also said that he was honored because only close family were permitted to attend and help. The Odaisan okayed my grandfather's presence. On the day they arrived at the church, my grandfather and another man (a family member) carried Masa out of the car. Masa was in a trance like state, but as soon as they carried him up the short flight of stairs to the church, Masa suddenly broke the grasp of both men, and began running down the street like a real dog! My grandfather and the other man chased Masa down and subdued him. Masa was struggling with the two men all the way back to the church. But once they carried him up the stairs and past the front door threshold, Masa stopped fighting and again went into that trance-like state. My grandfather and that other man placed Masa in front of the Odaisan, and both men stood on the left and right of Masa just in case they had to restrain him. Masa was sitting like a dog... do you know when you tell a dog to "sit"? Masa was sitting just like that. The Odaisan lit a lot of incense and began chanting a prayer in Japanese. He also waved a stick with a white pompom attached, and tapped a bell using some type of wooden stick. While all this was going on, my grandfather looked at Masa and noted some really spooky things: he was still in a trance-like state, and his eyes were wide open... they looked glassy and never once blinked. Then Masa's mouth would move, but no words would come out. Then he would close his mouth and an old Japanese woman's voice could be heard coming from Masa. This would repeat itself several times. The voice would never come out while Masa's mouth was moving, only when his mouth would close. I remember my grandfather saying that the exorcism lasted a long time. When the exorcism was finally over. Masa collapsed, and some of his immediate family members took care of him. Then the Odaisan asked Masa's family to stay for a special meeting, to which my grandfather was also invited to. The Odaisan asked everyone if they knew what the old Japanese woman's voice was saying. My grandfather said that everyone (including himself), said that they could only understand some of the words spoken. However, everyone agreed that most of the words sounded like they came from an old Japanese dialect that dated back in the feudal Samurai days. The Odaisan said that some of Masa's ancestors did something terrible to a family who was in charge of taking care of a very large and wealthy village. This, according to the Odaisan, occurred in the 1600's. A member of that family asked a witch to put a curse on a male of Masa's family. The witch invoked the Inugami spirit for that curse. Some prefectures (provinces) in Japan can also use among other things, the snake spirit for possession. Can you imagine someone slithering and hissing like a real snake!? Well, the men in Masa's family were very strong in mind and body, and throughout the centuries nothing happened...until Masa. He was a sickly boy growing up, and not mentally very strong but (according to my grandfather) he was a generous and good-hearted person. After the exorcism, Masa lived a normal life for only a few years then passed away suddenly. I still get chicken skin whenever I tell this story. (By GeeBee)

"Inugami"

In Japanese mythology an inugami (dog god) is a type of “shikigami” (a kind of spirit summoned to serve a practitioner, most commonly carrying out vengeance at the behest of their “owners”). Inugami's are extremely powerful and capable of existing independently,as well as turning on their owners, and even possessing humans.

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