Tale 18 — The decline of the house the zashiki-warashi left
It was said that two child goddesses lived in the house of Yamaguchi Magozaemon, an old family, but one day a man met two unfamiliar girls by a bridge and heard them say they were leaving Magozaemon's house for another. Soon after, more than twenty people of this family died within a single day, poisoned by mushrooms.
- Land
- Tono
- Setting
- Yamaguchi, Tsuchibuchi, Tono, Iwate
- Beings
- zashiki-warashi
This is an English rendering of our short Japanese summary of the source tale — a summary translated from the Japanese, not a translation of the original text. The summary was drafted and translated with AI assistance, and names and numbers were checked against our records.