Tale 97 — A near-death experience in typhoid fever
When Kikuchi Matsunojo of Iide fell critically ill with typhoid fever, he flew as if through the air toward his family temple, and within its gate, where flowers bloomed in profusion, he met his dead father and his dead child. He was called back, and when he woke, his relatives had revived him by pouring water on him.
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