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Magic Items Wearables
By Fire Mountain
Butterfly with magnet assortment. 3/4in to 2-1/4in. Sold per package of 5.
All colorful assortments sold in packages of five. The body of the butterfly is made of clay and the wings are made of an adhesive bonded fabric. Each has small magnet for fridge or file cabinet.
Symbolism
According to the “Butterflies” chapter in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly is seen as the personification of a person's soul, whether they be living, dying, or already dead. One Japanese superstition says that if a butterfly enters your guestroom and perches behind the bamboo screen, the person whom you most love is coming to see you. On the contrary, large numbers of butterflies are viewed as bad omens. When Taira no Masakado was secretly preparing for his famous revolt, there appeared in Kyoto so vast a swarm of butterflies that the people were frightened—-thinking the apparition to be a portent of coming evil.[33]
According to Mircea Eliade's Encyclopedia of Religion, some of the Nagas of Manipur trace their ancestry from a butterfly.[2]
In Chinese culture two butterfly flying together is a symbolism for a loving couple. Also a famous Chinese folk story called Butterfly Lovers (a Chinese Romeo and Juliet story).
In some old culture Butterfly also symbolize rebirth into a new life after being inside a cocoon for a while.
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