>>12003179
>The witch hat is a good analogy. It'd also work for the powerup to be a broom.
The reason I chose a hat is because it is absurd that a pointy hat would give you the power to fly on a broom just like it is absurd a leaf would give you a tail, basically it only makes sense if you know the folklore.
>familiar with the idiotic traditions
Most traditions are, everything to do with witches looks idiotic from an outside perspective as does every other bit of western spirituality, normalcy isn't normal but what we are used too.
Something I dislike about old school localization is that they seemed ashamed of Japanese mythology, the Japanese love Wester mythologies and not only consuming games with those themes but making their own. Despite this, anytime a property was remotely Japanese beyond ninja's there was either no chance of it getting localized or if it was localized they would try and explain away the Japaneseness, like calling it Raccoon Mario.
One of the most Japanese games available, Pocky and Rocky would rather say the enemies are Goblins rather than explain what a Youkai is in the manual. They westernized the main characters name, her purification rod is a magic stick (gohei), her paper talisman (ofuda) are magic cards and I'm surprised they didn't call her shrine a church. They are soooo ashamed of the source material that they want to paper over it instead of leaning into it and getting kids interested in the rich world of Japanese mythology.
https://www.videogamemanual.com/snes/Pocky%20&%20Rocky%20(USA).pdf
