Tale 23 — The spirit of an old woman appeared on the eve of the memorial
On the eve of the fourteenth-day memorial, the people who had finished the nembutsu prayers and were about to go home saw an old woman sitting on a stone at the gate, but she was exactly the back of the person who had died. Because many people saw her, no one doubted it, but what attachment it was remained unknown to the end.
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