No. 58 — A persimmon tree on his head
There was a manservant who had a habit of drinking himself senseless and falling asleep at the teahouse, and he was bald. Children threw persimmon seeds at his bare head, and in time a persimmon tree grew there and bore fruit. The manservant, not knowing this, picked the persimmons and sold them for drinking money. Even after the tree was cut down, loaches appeared in the hollow of the stump, and he sold those too for drinking money, so the children who had been teasing him grew disgusted and stopped.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Type
- Strange Fates
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