I looked through the dictionary to find the word ofuda many a time, without success. Silly me! Turned out I forgot to take off the o- prefix, so it’s just “fuda” which means “token”.
Funny, how people adopt this word to describe what are really nothing but cards with magic words and symbols on them. It appears that there really isn’t anything special to these implements common throughout Japanese magic traditions other than the writing.
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