Okiku ningyo : a mysterious japanese doll.

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Ningyo is the name for a traditional doll in Japan. Word-for-word ningyo means "human shape". There is many dolls in Japanese temples. You don't throw a doll in Japan, but you offer your abandoned doll to a temple. Nice tradition, isn't it ? This one is in a temple in the island of Hokkaido. She was bought in 1918 by a young man for his sister Okiku aged two. It is a one foot long black haired pretty doll, wearing a kimono. A few months later, his sister died suddenly. The family placed the doll in the altar of the house and prayed for their daughter. They noticed... that the hair of the doll was growing ! They moved in 1938 and brought the doll to a temple. The doll's hair is still growing and is cut once a year in a special ceremony. After an analyze, the doll's hair are human hair. People think that the girl's soul is in this doll. Since twenty years, this doll is smiling. There is a song untitled Okiku Ningyo by the Japanese thrash metal band Sabbat. It is traduced by "Okiku, doll of the devil". Is this doll a devil's doll ? Here is a link to a japanese site with many photos of this doll : http://hobby.gray-japan.com/mystery_n/world/mystery-world-026.html