No. 6 — The fuku-no-kami who was no good

Record

A man who went to Mount Nansho to fetch kadomatsu saw a duck floating on Zarufuchi, and when he threw the kadomatsu into the pool, a woman came out of the pool and invited him in, entertaining him in a room at the bottom of the water. As thanks for the kadomatsu he was given an ugly child, no good, and he hid it in the house and so gained wealth, but his wife saw its true form, struck it with a broom, and drove it out, and the house returned to its former poor life.

Source

Ogasawara Kenkichi (ed.), Shiwa-gun Mukashibanashi-shu (1938) — National Diet Library Digital Collections (Japanese text)

Land

Shiwa District

Type

Gods and Belief, Spirited Away, Other Worlds

Beings

fuku-no-kami, the woman of the pool

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