No. 79 — Kachikachi Mountain
An old man caught an evil tanuki, a shape-shifting raccoon dog, and while he was away it tricked and killed his old woman, made her into soup, and fed it to him. When the old man learned the truth, a hare offered to take revenge for him: it made the tanuki carry a load of brushwood on its back, set fire to it and burned its back, then smeared chili pepper on it to torment it further, and finally put it on a boat of mud and drowned it, finishing it off.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Beings
- tanuki, hare
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