>>40956583 (OP)
It probably varies from place to place but for Japan as an example, a lot of the entities have specific ways to beat them. Just do the right thing and they go away. Though this mostly applies to things like Shinto yokai and urban legends, which people believed in the past but pretty much everybody today acknowledges are just made up to scare people or because some peasant was tripping on shrooms in the woods.
For evil spirits in general, most measures are preventative. There is a specific Buddhist mantra to ward them off, but nobody except priests and monks actually knows that shit. I imagine most people would try to apologize for doing whatever they did to piss it off, since they usually don’t attack people out of nowhere, or just run away. If you’re carrying a charm with you, which a lot of people do just for good luck, you should take it out and hold it up. People who believe they’ve had encounters with an entity tend to go to shrines or temples to cleanse themselves and probably get someone to conduct an exorcism on their home in case it followed them. Pic is a sign I found in an abandoned building with a ward against evil spirits written on it. It seems to have been written hastily on a normal piece of paper by a regular person.
