(Kelly of the Clue Crew kneels at the riverbank in Kyoto, Japan, and releases a basket with two small dolls into the current.)  In Shinto, dolls called katashiro take on transgressions of a person & are set adrift in this type of spiritual cleansing rite
The traditional Shinto purification ritual harae is represented 
when Susano-o is ... Japanese Shint: an interpretation of a priestly perspective.