sorcerer, medium, shrine maiden
巫 centers on a person who acts as an intermediary with spirits or gods: a sorcerer, medium, or shrine maiden. The common thread is a ritual role that bridges the human and supernatural worlds.
巫 is an ancient pictograph of a ritual tool or a person performing a ritual, possibly representing a shaman's implement or posture. The modern form retains a symmetrical, cross-like shape that suggests a ceremonial object or figure.
The shape looks like two people (人) standing around a central tool (工), like shrine maidens or mediums performing a ritual together.
For フ, imagine a sorcerer blowing a magical 'foo' sound to summon spirits: foo -> フ, and the medium channels the supernatural.
miko; shrine maiden; young girl or woman (trad. an unmarried virgin) who assists priests at shrines
medium; diviner; shaman; oracle
Korean shamanism
spiritism; necromancy; sorcery
shrine maiden's ceremonial dance (in kagura)
sexual liaison
shrine maiden; ancient priest
virgin consecrated to a deity; shrine maiden; (spiritualistic) medium
shamanism
shaman; oracle; diviner; medium
female medium who summons spirits by sounding the string of a catalpa bow
rural female shaman
sexual liaison