I Found Piles of Salt at the Entrance to a Shrine
1. What does it mean?
2. It’s to keep you away.
3 (OP). I took some photos.
4. It’s a barrier.
8. It sounds like a barrier, but a shrine shouldn’t need that, so it’s a mystery.
9. Be cleansed, be purified…
10 (OP).
11 (OP). This shrine regular holds small festivals and is pretty popular. So I don’t think it’s something bad.
5. It means you’re free to eat it.
12. Nah, that ain’t salt.
14 (OP).
15. Go kick it.
13. A visitor probably thought it was good for them so they did it.
16 (OP). It’s like that picture, on some short pillars in front of the entrance.
18. It’s remnants for people to drop by. The ox drawing the cart licks it -> Well, guess I have no choice but to rest now.
20 (OP). >>18 For real?
19. It seems to be table salt.
21. Look up ox drawn carts and piles of salt.
22 (OP). This seems pretty common with stores and such, but in this case, it depends on whether it’s something religious or not.
24. I see…
26 (OP). >>24 Do you know what it is?
27 (OP). I have photos of other places in the shrine, do you wanna see them?
28 (OP). That reminds me, a long time ago, they used to have this concrete stall or something full of dolls and such.
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33 (OP). >>31 They used to put Japanese dolls, stuffed bears and such in here. Dolls were just thrown in there and there was a torn blue sheet on top of it.
32. If it turns black the next day, get out of town immediately.
36 (OP). >>32 Come to think of it, my friend who lives near the shrine said that the salt turned black once.
37 (OP). And his mother apparently had a strange experience too.
38 (OP). What strange experience? Apparently their toilet was broken once, so they had to go the nearby park to use the toilet there. While there she heard a girl crying, and she was so scared she ran back home, but for some reason, she was crying in the middle of the road next to their house.
39 (OP). I’m kinda scared.
40 (OP). I’ve used the toilets at that shrine before and played with fireworks there too.
41 (OP). Seriously, what should I do? Am I gonna be cursed?
42 (OP).
43 (OP). >>42 1. Main hall
2. The sub-shrine.
3. The concrete stall.
4. I forgot to write it.
5. Parking lot.
6. Swings.
44 (OP). My friend’s house is at the end of the road to the lower right, and there’s an entrance and short pillars there too, but no salt.
45 (OP). There’s another entrance at the end of the green path in the top right corner, but like the one in the bottom right corner, it doesn’t have salt.
46 (OP). I forgot to write that there’s another passage above number 5, but that one doesn’t even have a short pillar.
47. How long is this guy gonna keep talking for? Nobody’s that interested, man.
48 (OP). >>47 No, I’m scared so I was hoping I could get a little information, you know?
50 (OP). I guess it really is table salt?
29. I’m a delivery driver, and sometimes I see salt piled by a front door in an octagon shape. Maybe they’re religious, I don’t know.
49. It’s for licking if you get heatstroke.
34. It’s summer. It’s to get an electrolyte charge.
30. It’s so they’ll get lots of visitors.
7. It’s just for keeping the shrine grounds clean.