Editing Rising Sun Eternal: Magic (section)

=== Folk Magic === 

This is the traditional, time-honoured type of magic practised by wandering aruki miko shamanesses, or ateji mediums. It was almost always practised by women (or transgenders) and was primarily associated with shamanism and the summoning or invocation of kami in the Shinto pantheon, chiefly minor kami and local spirits, or ancestors. The government historically tried to control these figures by registering them through shrines and temples, and many religious houses would have such miko attached. However, many also wandered independently and carried out other roles, such as healing, minstrelry, dance, or even prostitution. (Much rarer, male shamans were known as geki.)
Ateji and aruki miko traditionally learned through intensive apprenticeship to a senior shaman, often a family member. They would learn to call the kami and spirits and be possessed by them to communicate with the living and to perform magic.  
Typically, an aruki miko/ateji initiates mental contact with a kami or spirit, which will then answer what questions or give what prophecy it has been asked to do, or perform magic. Denied the power and authority of the shrines and temples, an aruki miko/ateji can rarely if ever contact any spirit or kami above a Major magnitude, and the magic performed by the summoned entity is commensurate, as well as highly localized to the entity’s particular location or area of power.