{"id":42231,"date":"2022-03-07T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T05:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/07\/japans-killing-stone-splits-in-two-releasing-superstitions-and-toxic-gases"},"modified":"2022-03-07T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T05:59:18","slug":"japans-killing-stone-splits-in-two-releasing-superstitions-amid-the-sulphur-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42231","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s \u2018killing stone\u2019 splits in two, releasing superstitions amid the sulphur springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legend has it there is an evil spirit trapped in the Sessho-seki stone, so what happens now that the stone is broken?<\/p>\n<p>Predictions of dark forces being unleashed by an evil vixen hung over social media in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> on Monday after a famous volcanic rock said to kill anyone who comes into contact with it was found split in two.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/folklore-and-mythology\">mythology<\/a> surrounding the <em>Sessho-seki<\/em>, or killing stone, the object contains the transformed corpse of Tamamo-no-Mae, a beautiful woman who had been part of a secret plot hatched by a feudal warlord to kill Emperor Toba, who reigned from 1107-1123.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/07\/japans-killing-stone-splits-in-two-releasing-superstitions-and-toxic-gases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legend has it there is an evil spirit trapped in the Sessho-seki stone, so what happens now that the stone is broken?Predictions of dark forces being unleashed by an evil vixen hung over social media in Japan on Monday after a famous volcanic rock said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42232,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42231\/revisions\/42232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}