Tale 3 — The black-haired woman of the mountains and the yama-otoko
The hunter Sasaki Kahei encountered a woman with long black hair in the mountains and shot her down with his gun. As proof, he cut off her hair and set off for home with it, but fell asleep along the way, and a tall man appeared, took the hair back from his bosom, and went away.
- Land
- Tono
- Setting
- Tochinai, Tsuchibuchi, Tono, Iwate
- Beings
- yama-otoko, yama-onna
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