A charm?

If you're going to buy one, buy it from us!

You're definitely Reimu's kid, huh...

That's definitely a charm from the Hakurei shrine.

It's just much older than the ones there now.

It's not... one of ours.

Rinnosuke-san, how could you cheat on the shrine like that?

... Oh, well.

What we now call charms were originally things like blessed talismans or ashes of items used in divine work

which were carried around by a person so that he or she receives blessings.

Although charms have been conventionalized, and become different from their original forms,

originally, gods are beings that only manifest their divine virtue when they obtain faith...

Even if a conventionalized charm were worn, as long as the wearer reveres it for the purpose of receiving blessings, it counts as a form of faith towards the god recorded on the charm, and the wearer can be endowed with divine virtue... There are colloquial sayings such as "faith moves a mountain", and this would...