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Littlestone
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Edited Sep 01, 2009, 07:59
Re: Votive offerings
Sep 01, 2009, 07:56
I used to live in Japan and attended a few Dondo Matsuri's each year.


We have something in common :-) And you're quite right when you say, "...people take their own New Year decorations from their homes and burn them at the festival." I have seen votive offerings left in obscure places however, usually coins, pebbles or a few wild flowers; one of the scariest was a simple straw doll hanging from the branch of a tree in the eastern mountains of Kyoto - it had several wooden pins stuck through it.

I also like the tree on the way to West Kennet. I've noticed recently that a couple of hawthorn bushes on the path up Waden Hill (from the Avenue) also have a few ribbons attached to them.
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