tengu

Tengu — a long-nosed mountain spirit.

Tono2 tales

• Tale 29The tengu and gold of Mount KeitoTo Mount Keito, where a tengu, a long-nosed mountain spirit, was said to live and which even those on pilgrimage to Hayachine avoided, a man known as…
• Tale 90The big man of Tengumori and a young man's gruesome deathIn a field at the foot of Tengumori, a young man who was about to doze off saw a big man with a very red face appear before him. The young man, fond…

Shiwa District1 tales

• No. 82The cloak and hat of hidingA sly child held a broken basket up to his face and talked to himself, saying he could see Edo and could see Osaka, and a tengu, a long-nosed…

Inaba and Hoki2 tales

• No. 3The tengu's treasureA child named Taro, who lived at the foot of Mount Daisen in Hoki Province and loved gambling, went one day to Mount Daisen to gather firewood. While…
• No. 4The tengu's treasureTaro, who was stopped in the mountains by a tengu, a long-nosed mountain spirit, received a cloak of hiding and a hat of hiding in exchange for an…