Here we will enjoy a special demonstration on the duty that Namahage have: they visit the village houses during the new year to see if the kids behaved well and if the wives are hard-working and they are supposed to be really scary to motivate children to be really good for the next year and awesome the children will cry but this is part of the game and how it supposed to be! The house owner will offer some light foods and a lot of alcohol sake to the Namahage to calm them down. The travel exist from house to house and they are supposed to be gods and bring good fortune!! Their costumes are made of rice straw and if some part of the straw will fall while they run around in the room, you can take it and it will be your lucky item. I got one!!!
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