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were committed by Susano-o-[errata 1]Mikoto, brother of the Sun-Goddess Amaterasu-O-Mikami, in Heaven.
69. The earthly offences mentioned in the Engishiki or Institutes of the Engi Period are the following: “Abnormal offences against nature, such as cutting the living skin; cutting the dead skin; being an albinos[errata 2]; being affected with excrescences; the offences of a son’s intercourse with his own mother, or that of a father with his own daughter; the offence of one’s cohabitating with both a mother and her daughter, the offence of cohabitating with animals; calamity caused by crawling worms (or accidents through being bitten by snakes or centipedes, etc.), calamity brought by the gods on high (or calamity sent by the Thunder-Gods, e.g., being struck by lightning); calamity caused by the birds on high (calamity caused, or damage done by,[errata 3] birds in the air); kiling[errata 4] animals belonging to other people; the offence of using magical incantations.” I have here taken the liberty of quoting with a slight alteration from Dr. K. A. Florenz’s English Translation of the O-Harai-no-Norito or Ritual of the Great Purification. T.A.S.J., Vol. XVII, p. 61.
70. Vide ibid., the O-Harai-no-Norito or Ritual of Great Purification, T.A.S.J., Vol. XXVI.[errata 5]
71. Vide p. 21 supra.
72. The present Shiki-no-Kami and Shiki-no-Shimo, in Yamato Province.
73. This old village which the late Dr. Yoshida Togo mentions in his book, Dainihon Chimei Jisho, or Dictionary of the Geographical Names in Japan Considered Historically (Japanese
