The story of a fox

There are many stories about foxes in this area, which was deep in the mountains, but for some reason, no one has seen the fox's ghost fox.
Once upon a time, Shimonagaya was a lonely village, and sometimes fox fires could be seen.
One night, a farmer returned from Shinmeisha and was walking on a dark village road. I saw a blue fire on the top of the cedar tree, farther above the top of the cedar tree.
After a while, the fireballs flowed without sound. Then, in the nearby bushes, there is a sound coming in a nearby bush. When the farmer was crazy and ran into the house, there was a loud noise in the rice field. The next day, when he climbed the mountain, he found a number of horizontal holes that seemed to be a fox nest.
Hino also has such a story.
At one point the man of the village was hurriedly on the way home from dusk.
But only on that day, I can't reach the village. The mountain became darker and darker, and the man was at a loss, sat down on the old tree stock, taking out cigarettes and matches out of his pocket, and lit him.
Then, for a moment, I wondered if the light sparkled, and the usual way I was accustomed to clearly emerged in front of the man being taken.
It's a story about a woman.
One day he went out with his companion to the mountains of Noba. I was making a bunch of batters of batters, and soon my companion was gone. The sound of folding tree branches with pachin, and the sound of splitting pawns resonates, but I don't know where they are.
"I've been turned into a fox."
The woman squatting down and stood still. For he remembered that a man would be peeing and smoking a cigarette. At the same time, I was able to see my companions safely.
That's why when a woman in the village entered the mountain, she always went with her so that she would not be turned into a fox.

This is a story recorded in "Hometown Konan's Old Story".
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