. Old and new Japan . night to find his wifes hairand that of one of his concubines engaged in this horribleand deadly struggle ; and the sight of the hatred whichexisted through his instrumentality so affected him that hebecame a Buddhist monk, and went into retreat for therest of his life. Jealousy, which in women is by the Japanese considereda great fault, even approaching a crime, was held to causethe hair of the person so sinning to turn into snakes, whichbit and tortured her. Is there not in this idea perhaps anunderlying suggestion of the nature of the mental torturewhich jealousy is un
. Old and new Japan . night to find his wifes hairand that of one of his concubines engaged in this horribleand deadly struggle ; and the sight of the hatred whichexisted through his instrumentality so affected him that hebecame a Buddhist monk, and went into retreat for therest of his life. Jealousy, which in women is by the Japanese considereda great fault, even approaching a crime, was held to causethe hair of the person so sinning to turn into snakes, whichbit and tortured her. Is there not in this idea perhaps anunderlying suggestion of the nature of the mental torturewhich jealousy is undoubtedly capable of inflicting uponthe unfortunate individual who suffers from it ? It is little to be wondered at, when we remember thecare with which it is treated, that the Japanese womanshould value her hair very highly ; and that it should form,of all her physical possessions, the one she would leastwillingly lose. Indeed, in ancient times the unfaithful wifewas not always killed; the husband often esteeming it.
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