Tale 89 — An encounter with mountain gods at Mount Atago
At the summit of Mount Atago there was a shrine long said to be visited by a mountain gods, gods of the mountains. A young man from Wano, on his way to Kashiwazaki, met a tall person coming down from Mount Atago whose face was red, whose eyes shone, and who looked startled; seeing this, the young man realized it was a mountain gods and ran off without looking back.
- Land
- Tono
- Type
- Gods and Belief
- Beings
- mountain gods
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