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Episode 15: The first kid

Last Updated March 15, 2024

Illustration of a folk tale of "First Little Monk"

 Once upon a time, on the evening of December 8, the first kid, who cannot be seen by humans, came from the mountain with a thick book and went to the village to find a house with poor doors. It is said that When the children find clogs and sandals scattered in bad manners, they press and stamp the stamp and write their names on the book. When the book is full of names, they leave it to Tsuji's Dosojin until the first day, and the first kid returns to the mountain again.
 The children's house with their name was feared by people that the next year would always have a plague god. Therefore, even if the first kid comes on the first day of the first day, the children of the village will make a temporary shrine of Dosojin made with Kadomatsu and decorations on the 14th of New Year's Day so that the book does not reach it. (Hokora) is burned together with Dondoyaki.
 Adults offer a basket in the garden of their house on December 8 when the first kid comes. And the first boy,
"He has a lot of eyes, and he doesn't fit him."
It seems that he is going to get away.


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