

In episode 11 - _Hollow Touch_ , we learn that the prevailing myth among
humans about how half-spirits are born, that if a pregnant woman is spirited
away, when she returns, the baby later born is a half-spirit, is incorrect.
The real reason was that the Village of Oracles would take pregnant women and
put them through a ceremony where the blood from a severed fox spirit's head
is poured on the woman's stomach.

We know that the chief of the Village of Oracles has had numerous half-spirits
born before, as when Zakuro was born he had plan to put her with the rest of
the half-spirits, that was until he realized what power she had. Even after
Tsukuhane's escape, the village chief, and later Lord Omodaka, continued in an
attempt to create another half-spirit with Zakuro's power.

Susukihotaru, Bonbori and Hozuki are all half-sprites. Kushimatsu did say that
she traveled with Zakuro, finding half-spirits and taking them in to protect
them from the Village of Oracles. But if the myth about a half-spirit's birth
was actually the work of the Village of Oracles, then how were those 3 born as
half-spirits? Bonbori and Hozuki was raised in a cave, and if the 3 were born
in the Village of Oracles, Kushimatsu would not have been able to rescue them.


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How was Susukihotaru, Bonbori and Hozuki born?