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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. These objects are thrown outside with the chant “out with oni; in with good fortune” (15[2])during the Japanese Setsubun (15[3])festival. A bull was persuaded to stop eating these objects by a man who apocryphally died after refusing to run from murderers through a (*) field containing these objects. Worshippers threw these objects over their shoulders to propitiate the dead during the Lemuralia. The figurine in a king cake is known as a “fève” because it derives from one of these objects. For 10 points, the consumption of what plants was banned by Pythagoras? ■END■

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