The Miraculous Japanese doll Kiku
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| 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.
