No. 61 — The child with a long name

Record

A boy was born and given a very long name. While playing in the river, he fell in by accident. By the time his companions, who had come running for help, finished saying his long name to the end, the boy had already been carried away and was gone from sight.

Source

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

Land

Shiwa District

Type

Strange Fates

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