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A man who persuaded a long-nosed goblin

(Japanese classical stories)(Toyama city)

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　A long time ago in the depth of the mountains of Kurobe, strange things or scary things happened vey often.

　When a lumberman was going to cut down a tree and set an ax on a tree,

　the sky got clouded all of sudden, mountains or valleys began to move loudly,

　the gust of wind blew a lumberman in the air,

　or people on the tree were slammed on the ground.

　People said it was a long-nosed goblin.



　One day, when a man who was asked to cut down trees in the mountain forest

　hired many lumbermen and they were going to cut down the trees,

　the sky began to get clouded and the mountains and the valleys began to move loudly as expected.

　Then a man said to the valley in a loud voice,

“We have to pay to our feudal lord several hundred Ryo(old currency).

　It would not be enough even if we cut down all of the trees in this valley.

　Listen, long-nosed goblin.

　If you use your supernatural power and offer us money, we won’t cut trees.”

　He said so and he took his abacus.

“Look. Can you prepare all of this money?”

　Soon afterwards, the loud noise stopped.



　Since then, the weather was fine every day and nothing happened even if the lumbermen put axes on the trees.

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