Shide is strips of paper cut and folded in a specific way that are attached to and suspended from Shimenawa (a sacred straw rope), tamagushi (branch of a sacred tree), haraegushi (branch of a white tree), or gohei (wooden wands).
紙垂（しで）とは、注連縄や玉串、祓串、御幣などにつけて垂らす、特殊な断ち方をして折った紙である。