On the other hand, hitokata have been used in conjunction with various prayers and ceremonies, for example, to curse someone to suffer a fatal harm such as a death by accident or disease by damaging a hitokata on which the targeted person's name was written or to make a wish for fruition of love by saying prayers while putting 2 dolls representing a male and a female together.
一方で人形に相手の名前等を記し、その人形を傷つけるなどして、相手に事故死や病死などの重大な災いをひき起こす呪いとして用いたり、男女二体の人形を一つにし祈祷することで恋愛成就を祈るなど、様々な祈祷儀礼に広く見られる。