Tale 92 — Children meet a yama-otoko at Hayachine
Children from Tsuchibuchi village who had gone to play at Hayachine passed a tall, dark-skinned man with shining eyes while coming down the mountain in the evening. He answered that he was going to Oguni, but since that was the wrong direction, they grew suspicious, and as they wondered about it the man disappeared. The children said he was a yama-otoko, a man of the mountains, and ran home.
- Land
- Tono
- Setting
- Tsuchibuchi, Tono, Iwate
- Beings
- yama-otoko
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