Tale 31 — Children carried off by ijin

Record

Among the children of households in Tono, every year there were many who were carried off by ijin, a stranger from outside the village, and went missing. It was said that this happened more often among women.

Source

Yanagita Kunio, Tono Monogatari (1910) — Aozora Bunko (Japanese text)

Land

Tono

Setting

Tono, Iwate

Type

Mountain Folk and Strangers, Spirited Away, Other Worlds

Beings

kamikakushi, yamabito

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