No. 32 — The monkey's night raid
A monkey, old mountain monkeys said to turn uncanny, and a crab pounded rice cakes together on a mountain, but the monkey ran off with the mortar and all, meaning to keep the rice cakes to itself. The crab took the rice cakes back and ate them, and the monkey, angered at this, announced it would come to attack at night. An egg, a needle, cow dung, and the mortar each promised in turn to help the crab. When the monkey came for the night attack, it was caught by each of their tricks in turn and destroyed, and in the end it was made into monkey soup and eaten.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Beings
- monkey, crab
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