Hello and good day everyone!
In celebration of "Setsubun" a festival held on February 3 or 4, one day before the start of the spring. Some people have been performing rituals with the purpose of chasing away evil spirits. The most commonly performed Setsubun ritual is the throwing of roasted beans. When throwing the beans, you are supposed to shout "Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!" (Devils out, happiness/good luck in")
After our morning circle, here in our school we did the throwing of beans ritual while singing the "Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi" song.
We made our own iron club made of crumpled paper and plastic. To chase away the oni (evil spirit)
Listening carefully to the instructions.
Practicing the "Oni wa soto!"song
We will use this crumpled paper as a bean.
We are ready!
Everyone has their "beans" (made of crumpled paper)
I look cute on this.
We made this.
Gear up and ready to go!
We are ready!
Here comes the "evil spirit"
Everyone were scared and shocked.
But we have 2 brave friends...
Chase away the evil spirit...
Go away!
Afraid and some were already crying...
a little scary but we have to chase away the evil spirit.
Supporting our dear friends...
Go away!
Brave friends fighting the bad spirit...
Chasing away the bad spirit.
Everyone let's shout "Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!"
Our yummy lunch for today!
That's all for today!
Thank you and have a nice day!
