Tale 77 — The illusion of a dead man he stepped over
On the night of a funeral, Tajiri Chozaburo was returning home alone, a little behind the others, when he found an unknown man lying on his back beneath the eaves, using a stone as a pillow. He shook the man with his foot, but the man would not move, so he stepped over him and went on home. When he went back the next morning there was no trace of it, but the position and shape of the stone used as a pillow were exactly as he had seen the night before.
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