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A yokai that produces the sound of water washing over these objects often appears as a bald, bent-over man with his hands in a bucket. Along with bones, common Italian All Souls’ Day cookies are named for a type of these objects. An old woman placed these objects in her mouth while roasting a fish head to honor the “silent goddess” Tacita during the Feralia. A bull was persuaded to stop eating these objects by a man who apocryphally died after (-5[1])refusing to run from murderers through a field containing these (15[1])objects. (15[1])These objects are thrown outside with the chant “out with (*) oni; in with good fortune” during the Japanese Setsubun festival. The figurine in a king cake is known as a “fève” because it derives from one of these objects. Worshippers threw these objects over their shoulders to propitiate the dead during the Lemuralia. For 10 points, the consumption of what plants was banned by Pythagoras? ■END■ (10[1])

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