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Lives of Unusual Children 17<br />

13. The Snail Son-in-Law<br />

Shimane, Mino-gun, Hikimi-mura: Minzoku bun II 7, "The mudsnail son"<br />

(Tanishi musuko). A snail was petted by an old couple. He received<br />

a grain of rice and went to get the daughter of a ch6ja for his<br />

bride. It resembles "Mudsnail Ch6ja" in this.<br />

The girl gave him a needle. He annoyed demons who were<br />

wrestling and stuck the needle into the nose of one of them. He<br />

pricked the demon and got a magic mallet from him. The snail<br />

asked the girl to use the mallet to change him into a youth six<br />

feet tall. They shook out a house with the mallet and lived happy<br />

together.

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