Watanagashi Festival

Watanagashi can be read in two ways 'Cotton Floating' or 'Organ Floating' depending on how it is read. The Latter reading is best used to describe the festival in the olden days of the town, while now it is more accurate for the former reading.

Third Sunday of June and celebrates the town's guardian Diety 'Oyashiro-Sama' (which Rika is belived to be the Rebirth of by the town folks)

Oyashiro's Curse, Murders and Demoning Away

Oyashiro's Curse, Murders and Demoning Away

-Year One. Dam construction site manager was murdered and dismembered. People who worked at the dam site each took a part of the body to hide (in for a penny in for a pound) eventually one of the people who was part of the dismemberment and hiding of the body pieces turned themselves in. With that four of the other five people of the group turned themselves in. The last person- the person who was considered the ring leader and the hider of the right arm could not be found. The Dam Manager was belived to have invoked Oyashiro's curse and then the leader of the murder was belived to be 'Demoned Away' to Onigafuchi Swamp where his truck was found.

-Year Two. The Death of the proponate leaders of the Dam Construction. The parents of Hojo Satoko. While

-Year Three The Deaths of the Furude Shrine Priest and his Wife. The Parents of Furude Rika.

-Year Four. The Death of Satoko's Aunt and her brother that went missing, Satoshi.

-Year Five. The June of 1983. The Deaths of Tokitake Jiro and Tanako Miyo.

The Dam Constriction Project

Most people do not speak about the darker side of the dam construction project, speaking only of how it brought the town together to keep the town thriving.

The story is that the Government wanted to build a damn in the Hinamizawa area, which would not only evicted the town but also submerged the land. The town fought hard to prevent the town from being sumberged- on group of the town were working on the more legal methods, such as petetioning and writing to the leaders of the government, but the Sonozaki clan- due to their power in the area and connection to the Yakuza were considered more of the 'heroes in the dark' using more underhanded methods to keep the dam from being built.

Miion and Rena were hiding information about the Dam site to try and keep Keiichi in the dark in order to keep his views of Hinamizawa from being tainted (Demoned Away Chapter)