Japanese Folk Tale

Overcoming Evils 109
Akita, Senhoku-gun: Ugo 246. A notation. The ox-leader hid in the
yamauba's house.
Yamagata, Higashitagawa-gun: MK II 7 30, "The mackerel peddler"
(Sabauri no hanashi). A man went to sell mackerel at a yamauba's
house, but he was not an ox-leader.
Fukushima, Iwaki-gun: Iwaki 56, 148, "The horse-leader and the shedemon"
(Umakata to onibaba).
Niigata Minamikanbara-gun: Echigo Sanjo 119, "The she-demon and the
fish peddler" (Onibaba to sakanauri). Example. Minamikanbara 139,
"The mackerel peddler and the she-demon" (Sabauri to onibaba).
Toyama, Kaminiigawa-gun: MK II 6 30, "The fish peddler and the shedemon"
(Sakanauri to onibaba). There is no ox. The man sold
salted yellow tail.
Ishikawa: Kaga 44, "The fox and the horse-leader" (Kitsune to umakata).
It is a fox instead of a yamauba, and it demands the horse's
legs. The man ran home. The ending is missing.
Tochigi, Haga-gun: Shimotsuke 46, 50, "The fish peddler and the yamauba"
(Sakanaya to yamauba) and "Tome who destroyed the yamauba"
(Yamauba 0 taiji shita Tome san). The first of these is close to
"0 Sun, the chain."
Yamanashi, Nishiyatsushiro-gun: Kai 147, "The horse-leader and the
demon" (Umakata to oni). The man went to the demon's house for
revenge. When he took the lid off the kettle in which he burned
the demon to death, it was filled with pine pitch. He sold it and
became a cho ja. The ending could be a recent story.
Nagano, Kitaazumi-gun: Otari 19, "Sanjuro" (Sanjuro no hanashi).
Sanjuro was the ox-leader. He had a load of dried cod when the
yamauba met him at the pass. After he scalded her to death, he
found a great mountain spider.
Gifu, Yoshiki-gun: Hidabito V 3 21, "The ox-leader and the yamauba"
(Ushikata to yamauba).
Okayama, Oku-gun: Okayama bun III 4, "The horse-leader and the shedemon"
(Mago to onibaba). She asked for salt and ate all of it. No
part about eating the horse. The horse-leader followed her to her
home and killed her in the bath.
Hiroshima, Toyota-gun: Aki 95, "Chota and the demon" (Chota to onD.
Asa-gun: Aki 92, "Chokichi and the she-demon" (Chokichi to onibaba).
A man went to buy salt and met with danger on the way
home. After he destroyed the she-demon, he buried her in the corn
patch. The roots of the corn turned red.
Yamagata-gun: MK I 9 33, "The horse-leader and the she-demon"
(Mago to onibaba). After he burned the she-demon to death, he
discovered she was a badger. What follows is like "Kachi-kachi
bird." Geibi 82, "The ox-leader and the yamauba" (Ushikata to
yamauba). About Keisaijiro. He invited the yamauba to his house,
put her into a kettle, and killed her. He reached from the rafters
to take mochi. There is another kind of story on the same page.
Tottori: Inpaku min I 5 258, "The yamauba and the horse-leader"
(Yamauba to mago).
Yazu-gun: Inpaku mukashi 75, "The yamauba" (Yamauba).
Yamaguchi, Suo Oshima: K6sho 11 18, "Why the stem of buckwheat is
red" (Soba no kuki no akai wake).