According to “A scientific study of the Hinoe-uma superstition,” a publication based on a 1935 lecture by scholar Hansei Kobayashi, women born in Fire Horse years are “strong-willed, surpassing men, devour seven husbands, bring ruin to their families, and cannot peacefully fulfill their duties as women.”
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Despite criticism that the Hinoe-uma superstition was “baseless and irrational,” it remained deeply rooted.
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