Tale 4 — A woman with a child crossing a bamboo-grass field
As Kichibei of Yamaguchi village was cutting bamboo grass on Mount Nekkodachi, a beautiful woman carrying a child on her back came walking across the bamboo-grass field, drew near, and simply passed in front of him. From the time he saw this the man fell ill, and after being sick for a long while, he died.
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