Tale 38 — A wolf calamity invited by drunkenness
The master of an old family in Otomo village got drunk on sake and imitated the howl of a wolf, the mountain wolf once called o-inu, and the wolf came following after him. He became frightened, shut the gate fast, and stayed shut inside the house, but the wolf circled the house all night, howling without stop, and by dawn it had dug beneath the stable and killed seven horses there. It is said that from that time the fortunes of this family declined.
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