Said cotton would then be sewn into a large futon which would take the place of the traditional human sacrifice. Everyone in the village would contribute old coats and furniture to be gutted for their cotton. Instead, the villagers began practicing the modern Watanagashi known as the Cotton-Drifting Festival. In modern times, however, the original Watanagashi Festival became viewed as too violent and cruel to be practiced. The corpse and its severed intestines would then be thrown into the river to wash away, symbolizing the "drifting away" of the people's sins with the victim's innards. Said sacrifice would be publicly tortured using the tools in the Saiguden in a very specific process (including putting nails through every joint in every finger of the victim) before finally being killed by the priest or miko, who gouges out the victim's stomach and intestines with a large, hoe-like dissection tool following an intricate dance. The festival began centuries previously as a time to cast off the sins of the villagers via human sacrifice. It's purpose as a fixed point in Higurashi's story arcs makes the Festival analogous to Beatrice's letter in Umineko no Naku Koro ni.
The festival, while outwardly innocent, coincides with a series of gruesome murders that occur in Hinamizawa: the dam construction site murder, the dam supporters' accident, the priest's death, and the murder of the housewife. The Watanagashi Festival ( 綿流し祭, Cotton Drifting Festival ) is an annual festival in Hinamizawa and serves as a fixed point in every story of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.
Praises Hinamizawa's guardian deity, Oyashiro
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