"Sai" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is because some say the child-ghosts must build little towers of stones for penance in the Sai-no-Kawara, which is the place to which all children after death must go. And the Oni, who are demons, come to throw down the little stone-piles as fast as the children build; and these demons frighten the children, and torment them. But the little souls run to Jizo, who hides them ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn
... the Pueblo peoples, we may consider the Sai. Like the other tribes they are divided into exogamous totem clans; descent is traced only through the mother. The tribe through various reasons has been greatly reduced in numbers, and whole clans have died out, and under ...
— The Position of Woman in Primitive Society - A Study of the Matriarchy • C. Gasquoine Hartley |
