No. 5 — Two-year sesame and three-year sesame
A notice board was put up announcing that sesame would be given to whoever could bore the old woman of the choja, a very rich man, until she fell asleep, for she always cut short any old tale by saying she was bored. A man who came kept telling a story that endlessly repeated an exchange between a snake, a serpent, often a spirit in disguise, and a crow, until he left the old woman speechless, and instead of the two-year-old colt and three-year-old colt he had wanted, he went home with only a little sesame.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Type
- Strange Fates
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