Tale 55 — The girl who conceived a kappa's child
Many kappa, a river creature, lived along the Sarugaishi River, and in a house in Matsuzaki village there was, across two generations, someone who conceived a kappa's child. The child that was born was hideous, and was cut up and buried in a barrel. A girl of Niibari village too was visited by one rumored to be a kappa, and after a difficult labor, is said to have given birth to a child with webbed hands.
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