No. 73 — The wooden pestle
The wife had a nightly habit of turning her backside to the knothole in the door while she washed her feet. The husband of the house noticed that the neighbor's husband had been doing mischief through that knothole. One night, the husband pretended to be his wife and made as if to wash his feet in the same way, to lure the neighbor out and take revenge on him with a wooden pestle. The text breaks off at this point.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Type
- Strange Fates
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