The expression to "spirit away" means to remove without anyone's noticing.

means "spirited away". Kamikakushi, in Japanese folklore, is used to refer to the mysterious disappearance of a person that happens when an angered god takes a person away.

Japanese

In the anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 film

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 , the main protagonist, Chihiro, is "spirited away" from reality to the spirit world, where the witch Yubaba strips her of her name, thus forbidding her to go back to the human world.

Also, in the sound novel series, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

, known simply as When They Cry for the North American release of the anime adaptation, is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft sound novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The games are built on the NScripter game engine and are playable on Microsoft Windows PCs...

the term 'kamikakushi' is also used in the form of 'onikakushi', literally meaning "hidden by demons" or "spirited away by demons".

See also

• Spirited Away
  Spirited Away
  is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film tells the story of Chihiro Ogino, a sullen ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood and after her parents are transformed into pigs by the witch Yubaba,...
  
  
• Tengu
  Tengu
  are a class of supernatural creatures found in Japanese folklore, art, theater, and literature. They are one of the best known yōkai and are sometimes worshipped as Shinto kami...
  
  
• Unexplained disappearances
  Unexplained disappearances
  Unexplained disappearance is the physical disappearance of people or other objects without apparent cause or reason.-Notable disappearances:-Benjamin Bathurst:...
  
  
• Ōkami Kakushi
  Ōkami Kakushi
  is a Japanese visual novel developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation Portable, with Ryukishi07 of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni fame as game director and the manga author duo Peach-Pit as character designers. The game was released on August 20, 2009 in Japan...
  
  
• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
  Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
  , known simply as When They Cry for the North American release of the anime adaptation, is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft sound novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The games are built on the NScripter game engine and are playable on Microsoft Windows PCs...