Tale 117 — A chicken exposes a yamanba disguised as a daughter
While the family was away, a yamahaha, an old woman of the mountains who eats people, ate the daughter and put on her skin to take her place. The next morning a chicken crowed, "Look in the corner of the chaff shed," and it went on singing of the truth even as the bride rode to her wedding on horseback, until the parents understood and pulled the yamahaha down from the horse and killed her. In the chaff shed the daughter's bones were found.
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