No. 62 — The old man's flour-grinding song
While the old man thatched the roof, the old woman did needlework, and the daughter swept the earthen floor, a bean that was found was roasted and ground into flour, in the cumulative style of a children's song. On the way to the neighbor's to borrow flour, he went on while being threatened in turn by a dog, a horse, a cow, and a chicken, and when the flour that was finally made was placed between the old man and the old woman, the old man's fart blew it away, and the neighbor's children, saying it was delicious roasted barley flour, licked it up.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Type
- Strange Fates
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