kwaidan stories and studies of strange things

The upper edge of the stone between its teeth,Ĭlung desperately for a moment, and droppedįor months thereafter, the retainers and the domestics lived in ceaseless fear of ghostly visitation. It rolled: then, suddenly bounding, it caught

Rice sacks,-two long blood-jets pumping from There was a flash, a swish, a crunching thud: the bound body bowed over the Great anger, - “I will bite it!-I will bite”. If yourĪngry ghost can help you to do that, some of

After your head has beenĬut off, try to bite the stepping-stone. Directly in front of you there is a stepping-stone. 'Very well,' said the samurai, drawing his long sword -'I am now going to cut off your head. Will you try to give us some sign of your great resentment-after your head has been cut off?' But it is difficult to believe that you mean what you say. 'We shall allow you to frighten us as much as you please-after you are dead. He replied very gently,-almost caressingly:. If any person be killed while feeling strong resentment, the ghost of that person will be able to take vengeance upon the killer. So surely as you kill me, so surely shall I be avenged -out of the resentment that you provoke will come the vengeance and evil will be rendered for evil.'. But to kill a man for being stupid is wrong,-and that wrong will be repaid. Having been born stupid, by reason of my Karma, I could not always help making mistakes. It was only my very great stupidity which caused the fault. 'Honored Sir, the fault for which I have been doomed I did not wittingly commit. Suddenly the condemned man cried out to him:.

Kwaidan stories and studies of strange things