Tale 5 — Yama-otoko and yama-onna appear at Fuefuki Pass
Fuefuki Pass, which had been a shortcut toward the coast, came to be feared by people after rumors spread that one might meet a yama-otoko, a man of the mountains, or a yama-onna, a woman of the mountains, in the mountains there, and travel along it gradually ceased. In the end the road was changed to the roundabout Sakaige Pass, and from then on that road alone came to be used.
- Land
- Tono
- Setting
- Tono, Iwate
- Beings
- yama-otoko, yama-onna
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