Tale 116 — A girl chased by a yamanba
A yamahaha, an old woman of the mountains who eats people, got into the house of a girl who was left to watch it, and while it was making her eat, the girl seized the chance and ran away, but was pursued; she was helped by an old man cutting brushwood and an old man cutting reeds, and climbed a tree beside a marsh. A girl of a bamboo-grass hut hid her, and they killed the yamahaha, who had hidden in a wooden chest, with a heated gimlet and boiling water.
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