しきがみ

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Japanese

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式神
A kind of familiar spirit, summoned-up in service as a servant to the will of a practitioner of the onmyōdō (陰陽道) religion, very much like a western familiar.
Alternative spellings
識神, しきじん
(This term, しきがみ (shikigami), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)