No. 49 — The farting bride
A bride who had married into a house had a poor complexion, and she confided to her mother-in-law that at her own parents' home she had been free to break wind, but here she had been holding it in. When she was told to hold onto a pillar, she let out a great fart, and her mother-in-law was blown clear outside the house. When her husband learned what had happened, he divorced her. Along the road, the bride showed that she could knock down pears from a tree with her fart, and an ox-driver, impressed, promised to take her along with him.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Type
- Strange Fates
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