Tale 69 — The origin of Oshira-sama
When the father of a poor farmer's daughter learned that she had become husband and wife with her beloved horse, he killed the horse. The daughter clung to the horse's head and wept, and when the father cut the head off, the daughter rose to heaven still riding upon it. Oshira-sama, a household god kept as small cloth-wrapped figures, was made from the mulberry branch of that time, and is handed down as three statues: elder sister, middle, and younger sister.
- Land
- Tono
- Setting
- Tsuchibuchi, Tono, Iwate
- Beings
- Oshira-sama
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