Tale 82 — A shadow-figure standing in the sitting room
When Tajiri Marukichi was a boy, he went into the sitting room meaning to go to the privy, and at the boundary with the parlor there stood a human figure with hair hanging down. When he reached out his hand to feel for it, he touched only a wooden door, and his own hand could not be seen; the human shape seemed to overlap like a shadow, but when he came back with a lamp, nothing was there.
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