Psychodecanter

A psychodecanter is a relic used to separate a soul from its body. There are three different psychodecanters discussed in David Mitchell's novels.

In The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, a "pre-Shinto psychodecanter" (referred to later by Xi Lo in The Bone Clocks) was being used by Abbot Enomoto in his Shrine to the Goddess on Mt. Shiranui. The Goddess statue took the souls of newborn infants to produce "oil of souls," prolonging the life of the Abbot and his most loyal followers.

In The Bone Clocks, the Anchorites use the icon of the Blind Cathar in the Chapel of the Dusk to decant the souls of Engifted children into "black wine," after which "for a season--three months or so--no cellular subdivision occurs in their bodies."

In Slade House, Norah and Jonah Grayer use a substance they call "banjax" and an ancient Ninevite Candle to separate Engifted souls from their bodies in order to be consumed directly, once every nine years.