Yei Theodora Ozaki 
Ancient Japanese Fairy Tales [EPUB ebook] 

Sokongan

Long, long ago there was a large plain called Adachigahara, in the province of Mutsu in Japan. This place was said to be haunted by a cannibal goblin who took the form of an old woman. From time to time many travelers disappeared and were never heard of more, and the old women round the charcoal braziers in the evenings, and the girls washing the household rice at the wells in the mornings, whispered dreadful stories of how the missing folk had been lured to the goblin’s cottage and devoured, for the goblin lived only on human flesh. No one dared to venture near the haunted spot after sunset, and all those who could, avoided it in the daytime, and travelers were warned of the dreaded place.
One day as the sun was setting, a priest came to the plain. He was a belated traveler, and his robe showed that he was a Buddhist pilgrim walking from shrine to shrine to pray for some blessing or to crave for forgiveness of sins. He had apparently lost his way, and as it was late he met no one who could show him the road or warn him of the haunted spot.
He had walked the whole day and was now tired and hungry, and the evenings were chilly, for it was late autumn, and he began to be very anxious to find some house where he could obtain a night’s lodging. He found himself lost in the midst of the large plain, and looked about in vain for some sign of human habitation.
At last, after wandering about for some hours, he saw a clump of trees in the distance, and through the trees he caught sight of the glimmer of a single ray of light. He exclaimed with joy:
‘Oh. surely that is some cottage where I can get a night’s lodging!’…

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Bahasa Inggeris ● Format EPUB ● Halaman-halaman 249 ● ISBN 9783749446735 ● Saiz fail 0.6 MB ● Penerbit Books on Demand ● Diterbitkan 2019 ● Edisi 1 ● Muat turun 24 bulan ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 7419473 ● Salin perlindungan Social DRM

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