No. 34 — Anosamataro
A young man named Taro angered his master and was put into a weir to be sunk in a pond, but he deceived the laborers by lying that a tin mirror was buried there, and pretending it would cure an eye disease, he put a passing cattle driver into the weir in his place and took the cattle. The laborers who returned mistook the cattle driver for Taro and sank him in the pond together with stones, killing him. Taro then deceived even his master by saying there was treasure at the bottom of the pond, causing him to drown, and forced the man's surviving wife to become his wife.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Type
- Strange Fates
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