Japanese Folk Tale

204 The Yanagita Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale
Kagoshima: TD III 10 101, "The eyeless demon in Monjuroku" (Monjuroku
no menashi onD. In "Was it this kind of face?" by Shimazu
Hisamoto.
Further reference:
Chiho sodano Uzen, Yonezawa.
197. Two Mouths, an Upper and a Lower
This could be put with stories of conquest, but the main point is
the amusing look of the ghosts, two badgers disguised as one woman.
The one below yawned.
Iwate: Esashi 130, "The badgers disguised as a woman" (Onna ni baketa
mujina).
Tochigi, Haga-gun, Sakagawa-mura: Shimotsuke 72, "The badger's
failure to disguise" (Tanuki no bake sokonae).
Kanagawa, Tsukui-gun: SoshG 41, "Foxes" (Kitsune).
Kagawa, Takamatsu: SanshG Taka 40, "Badgers" (Tanuki no hanashi).
The origin of demon mochi in Okinawa. In some stories the demon
is astonished.
Further reference:
Enshu roku 1 l-u.
198. The Cat and the Squash
A bad cat was killed and buried. A squash sprouted from its eye.
This is a ghost story about poison in the squash. A man who realized it
was saved from death.
Aomori, Sannohe-gun: Tekkiri 251, "The unforgiving cat" (Neko no
shunen). Boatsmen are connected to this story.
Iwate: Kikimimi 349, "A ghost cat." No.9, "A ghost cat" (Kaibyo no
hanashi). A cat that said things was killed. After it was buried,
people who ate squash were poisoned. When they looked, they saw
that squash had sprouted from its mouth. Roo 202, "The origin of
squash" (Kabocha no hajimari). The way it is told is so much like a
katarimono that it must be the work of a bosama.
Fukushima: Iwaki 58, 151, "The cat and the squash" (Neko to kabocha).
Niigata, Minamikanbara-gun: MK I 2 23, "The grateful rooster" (Niwatori
no ongaeshi). The medicine peddler of EtchG is in it. There is
influence from tales of exaggeration.