Hmmm, I'm not sure if the wall episode could be evidence that Kohane sees the past. She could simply have contacted the spirit of the deceased. I think it also depends on where exactly Kohane gets her information from when doing this kind of thing. To someone getting information from, say, the dream world, there's probably no real difference between seeing the future and the past. To someone getting information from objects, people's minds or spirits, it's not so straight-forward.
Of course it's possible for the mother to have panicked, but what I meant is that a confident person doesn't just panic from something ordinary (at least not over here -- I'm no expert in Japanese culture), and I think that in order to have so much faith in "wishing" (perhaps too much, we went over something similar with the Monkey's Paw), one needs confidence. That's why I'm thinking maybe Kohane played down what she told Watanuki, or I missed an euphemism. Though it's possible that the mother somehow was able to live by "wishing" all that time and neither had her belief broken nor built the confidence that would've come with seeing her wishes come true.
Of course it's possible for the mother to have panicked, but what I meant is that a confident person doesn't just panic from something ordinary (at least not over here -- I'm no expert in Japanese culture), and I think that in order to have so much faith in "wishing" (perhaps too much, we went over something similar with the Monkey's Paw), one needs confidence. That's why I'm thinking maybe Kohane played down what she told Watanuki, or I missed an euphemism. Though it's possible that the mother somehow was able to live by "wishing" all that time and neither had her belief broken nor built the confidence that would've come with seeing her wishes come true.
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