Those who walk on the fire

People dressed in white costumes that could not be seen in the village fell. The children are looking into the black, tanned black, from their parents' shadow.
"It looks like a tengu-sama ..."
"Whose guys are they? What are you doing over there?"
While the children were wondering, a place where the soil was piled up in front of Sanno Shrine, a small place in the village.
"From now on, I'll set a fire here."
They say that they begin to blow their conch shells, like the distance of the beast. Then he knocked the drum and chanted a spell with a thick voice.
The children are staring at what will happen without any doubt.
"Ah!"
"Dad, I'm walking on the fire."
The villagers who were looking at it teaches the children.
"I'm sorry for the unpleasant things in this village, they're terrible."
"The fire is said to burn the bad things and make it clean."
And, of course, the adults were, of course, surprised. For he walks barefoot on the fire, without a hot face, and walk barely on the fire.
And then, he said.
"This is called the line of firewalking." Come on, Mina, too. I hope that no bad things will happen to this village or to each of you."
The children took a breath and watch over what their parents would do.
－Once upon a time, there is a way that has played an important role in the transmission of Buddhism. A splendid Buddha statue was also made in the temple along the road. One of them is also delivered to Komyoji Temple in Hino. There was such an event at Sanno Shrine, which was managed by Komyoji Temple. The people who looked like Tengu-sama used the old road, trained here and there and walked to Itayamabushi.
The villagers who believed that there was a mountain in the mountains, a house in the house, and the god of fire in the fire, must have crossed the fire and wished for the safety and happiness of the village.

This is a story recorded in "Hometown Konan's Old Story".
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