http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encycloped...ime.php?id=9419
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsume_Y%C5%ABjin_Ch%C5%8D

i guess one could say the boy has a magic rating 1 or something, and somehow have picked up a list of free spirit true names.

it seems like a nice way to show of how it would be to be a awakened in a community of mundanes.