Tale 71 — The old woman's secret faith
The old woman who told the origin of Oshira-sama, a household god kept as small cloth-wrapped figures, was a devoted chanter of the Buddha's name, but held a secret-seeming faith unlike that of people generally, and kept up a gathering of lay believers whose rites she disclosed not even to parent and child. On the fast days of Amida Buddha they gathered in the night to pray, and because she excelled at incantations, she held a kind of authority among her fellow villagers.
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