Tale 54 — The house of the dead at the bottom of the pool
A servant of a choja, a very rich man, in Kawai village dropped an axe into a pool, and when he went down into the bottom of the water, he found the house of his deceased master's daughter, who was weaving at a loom. She promised to improve the man's fortune on condition that he speak of it to no one, and the man grew wealthy for a time, but because he told others of the matter, the family's fortune declined again.
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