Tale 115 — Folktales and the tale of yamahaha
This was prefaced by saying that in Tono, folktales were called mukashi-mukashi, long-ago tales, and that among them, tales of yamahaha, an old woman of the mountains who eats people, that is, yamanba, were told the most often.
- Land
- Tono
This is an English rendering of our short Japanese summary of the source tale — a summary translated from the Japanese, not a translation of the original text. The summary was drafted and translated with AI assistance, and names and numbers were checked against our records.