Note 863 — Chapter V · THE MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER
Reading edition
W. Weston, in The Geographical Journal, vii. (1896) p. 143; id., in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxvi. (1897) p. 30; id., Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps, p. 161. The ceremony is not purely magical, for it is intended to attract the attention of the powerful spirit who has a small shrine on the top of the mountain.