The Miraculous Japanese doll Kiku

        The Miraculous Japanese doll Kiku

Japanese God of good luck

   If you ask, “What is the connection between a curse and the victim’s clothes, house, car, pen, etc.?” the simple answer of this question, “Obviously nothing”, a scientific mind may claim. Yet there are many records of houses, cars, castles, particular types and color of clothes that seem to have brought unimaginable disaster to their owners. What exactly is the connection between them?

   There is a very interesting story of a statuette of a half-naked fat man. This idol was the Japanese god of "Good Luck". It was at display in a junk shop, when a middle-aged English couple, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lambert, saw it and bought it at a very low price.

   With the position of the statue, a long trail of ill-luck visited them. unfortunately "Good Luck" became "Ill Luck" for them. Both of them suffered from various diseases. They kept on suffering from one disease or the other till the god of "Good Luck" stayed with them. Finally some good sense prevailed on over them and they could sell it to a Japanese manager of an eastern art shop. The couple never entered that shop again.

   Such cases abound. One wonders at their queerness and ask: what exactly is the connection between an object and its owner? Psychologists and analysts explain that there is something in the attitudes of such people. Such people, researchers explain, develop a negative attitude and have a feeling that "something bad" is going to happen. Hence, it has been suggested that possibly the accidents occur due to the prejudices existing in the victim’s unconscious mind.

   Not all agree with the above theory. The journalist and the spiritual investigator, Edward Russel, has put forward the theory that there may be some connection between "the negative thought field" and the “curse” that seems to trouble the people. According to his theory, the thought fields implant themselves in objects like an electric field which produces patterns on magnetic recording tape.

   This argument is more reasonable than the previous one, but it is not wholly satisfactory. The misbelievers do not completely agree with this theory. They question the connection of houses, castles, ships and airplanes with the misfortunes of their occupants.

   Gerard Croiset, a Dutch psychologist, advanced the theory that inanimate objects transfer strong physical and atmospheric impressions. A psychologist can know many things about an object merely by holding it I his hands. He has the capacity to feel and read the impressions given out by an object. It is true that sometimes souls continue to stay in the most precious object of the deceased.

   The following story is not dated centuries back. In 1938 Eikichi Suzeki deposited the precious doll of his sister, Kiku, in a temple in the village of Monji Saiwai Cho in Japan. The doll was the most treasured item of his dead sister. Since he was going to the War, he carefully put the doll into a box with his sister’s ashes.

   Eikichi Suzuki retuned from the War in 1947. He immediately went to the temple and opened the box in front of the priest.  To their surprise, they discovered that the doll’s hair had grown in length. The doll was scientifically examined and everything was found to be intact. It was human hair that had grown. The doll Kiku was then placed on the altar, but its hair continued to grow. In fact it is still growing and the altar has become a place of pilgrimage. Nobody has been able to comprehend its reason. In all probability the soul of the little girl resides in the doll, the object which was dearest to her.

   There is no doubt such unfathomable and unique cases baffle the common man. They motivate scientists to perform long and arduous experiments in search of the truth. But their efforts have not been successful so far in this direction.

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