Oshiti

Oshiti (OSHITI) is a witch that appears in the twelfth episode of the Magia Record Anime. It was shown in a flashback fighting against Yachiyo Nanami's team prior to Kanae Yukino's death and was defeated.

This witch was initially exclusive to the anime, but later appeared in the game in the Deliver to the Beyond, A Piece of Hope event.

Witch

OSHITI Oshiti
Type	Jail Gate Witch
Nature	Weeping Sleevefuls
Appearances	Magia Record Episode 12, Magia Record Game
English description Japanese description Jail Gate Witch. Nature: Weeping Sleevefuls. A witch convicted of sin, who has been reduced to only a head and suspended upside-down. Upon finding a human who has wandered into her Labyrinth, she insistently attempts to appeal to them about something, but her voice is emitted as rays of heat that burn her surroundings to ash. She is apparently waiting for someone while suspended, but even if that someone were to enter the Labyrinth, they would surely meet the fate of being turned to ash by the witch’s voice. The graveyards crowding the witch’s Labyrinth are piled high with gravestones: one stone for each sin the witch has committed, and for each lingering regret of an innocent. 獄門の魔女。その性質は袖絞。首だけとなり吊るされている罪人の魔女。結界内に迷い込んだ人間を見つけると、執拗に何かを訴えてくるが、その声は熱線として放出されるため、辺りを全て焼き払ってしまう。吊るされたまま誰かを待っているらしいが、仮にその誰かが結界へ入ってきたとして、魔女の声により灰となる運命を辿るだけだろう。結界内にひしめく墓場には、魔女が犯した罪の数、咎無き者の無念の数だけ墓石が積み重ねられている。

Minions

Suzugamori

SUZUGAMORI Suzugamori
Type	Jail Gate Witch Minion
Role	Strangle
Appearances	Magia Record Episode 12, Magia Record Game
English description Japanese description Jail Gate Witch Minion. Role: Strangle. Minions that exist to punish their sinful witch. Though they all worked together to string the witch up, they’re apparently dissatisfied with the fact that she’s just a head, and are searching for her torso. They and the witch display excellent teamwork, as the minions capture intruders and the witch incinerates them with her screams, but they’re not doing it intentionally. The minions are frequently caught in the witch’s appeals and incinerated as well. Sometimes, they venture outside the Labyrinth to select people, objects or animals that could serve as the witch’s torso, but they’re apparently not the type to particularly care about whether the size matches. It’s the vibe that’s important. 獄門の魔女の手下。その役割は絞首。罪人である魔女に罰を与えるために存在する手下。自分たちで吊るした魔女が首だけなのが不満であるらしく、その胴体を探している。侵入者をこの手下が捕らえ魔女が叫んで燃やし尽くす見事な連携を見せるが、意図してやっているわけでなく魔女の訴えにより手下たちも巻き込まれて燃やされている。時折結界の外まで出向き魔女の胴体となりそうな人や物、動物を見繕ってくるそうだが、大きさが合ってるかどうかはあまり気にしないタイプらしい。雰囲気重視。

Trivia

Gokumon（獄門）literally means "Jail Gate" or the name of a Japanese death penalty in the Edo period. In this execution method, the criminal was beheaded and then the severed head was gibbeted.
The term used for the witch's nature (袖絞), literally means "to squeeze sleeves". It is a Japanese idiom meaning to cry hard for grief.
In the anime, it was unclear if Oshiti is the witch's name, or simply a word used in its labyrinth; later in the same episode, Raspberry's name is clearly presented both on the entrance to its labyrinth and behind the witch when it attacks Yachiyo, where no such runes are given to this witch.
- Its name was confirmed to be Oshiti when it was added to the game.
Suzugamori execution grounds was a major execution site in Japan during the Edo period. It is recorded that crucifixions, execution by burning and Gokumon were carried out there. It is said that Yaoya Oshichi, probably the derivation of the Witch's name, was also burned here.
One of Touka Satomi's Lecture in Magia Record originally depicted Rebecca, but was later updated to be Oshiti shortly after she was implemented to the game.

About Yaoya Oshichi

Oshiti is likely named after Yaoya Oshichi, a girl regarded as the tragedy's heroine attempted arson for love and executed by burning. Although she was probably a real person in 1680s Japan, little is known with historical certainty about her. However, her tragic story has became the subject of many literary works and plays, and has been interpreted and adapted in many ways.

Five Women Who Loved Love is one of the most famous stories about Yaoya Oshichi. Most of later works follow this story in greater or lesser degree.
- The main plot of the story is as follows：

Oshichi is a beautiful 16 year old girl and the only daughter of a greengrocer. She is burned out by the fire and takes refuge in a temple. She falls in love with Kichizaburō, a young rōnin (the son of a samurai class who has no lord or master) who served as the temple's servant, but their love is thwarted by her parents and the social conditions of that time. She wails and plans to set another fire as she believe that by doing so, she will be reunited with him. Her arson ends in a small fire, and then, in her 17th spring, she is burned at the stake in Suzugamori execution site. Her lover who had been sick in bed during the series of incidents, finds a sotoba with her name written on it at the temple, laments learning of Oshichi's death and becomes a priest.

The sotoba written the name in Witch's barrier and the idiom "squeezing sleeves", the Nature of Witch, also appear in this novel.
Interestingly, Mifuyu Azusa mentions having read it in her in-game quotes.

Kinsei Edo Chomonshu ("A collection of stories about modern Edo") has a different plot. This work also influenced many later works.
- In this work, the name of Oshichi's lover is Sabē. Oshichi set fire to her family's greengrocer for their reunion, because she was incited by a rogue Kichizaburō who is planning to steal during fire. The official and the magistrate are reluctant to execute the young Oshichi and try to apply a law that exempts anyone under the age of 15 from the death penalty. However, they fail because Kichizaburō proves that she is 16 years old, born in Hinoe Uma (a sexagenary cycle for recording years, literally indicating that she's born in the year of the "fire horse") year, and then, she is executed by fire.
- Uwasa of the Commoner's Horse and the source of the rumor, the legend of tragic love in Mizuna may be a reference to this story. Mifuyu is involved in these.
- The author of this work, Bunkō Baba, was executed by Gokumon for another work that incurred the wrath of the government.