Tale 56 — The abandoned kappa child disappears
In a certain house in Kamigo village too, a child that seemed to be a kappa, a river creature, was born. Because its whole body was red and its mouth was large, an ominous form, it was abandoned at a crossroads, but thinking that it could be shown as a spectacle for money, they went back to retrieve it, and found it already taken away, nowhere to be seen.
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