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Week 7 Reading Notes: Ozaki, Part B

 These notes are based off The Goblin of Adachigahara from Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki 

  • I'm now in a halloween mood, so I'm loving these tales about goblins that eat people!
  • In this one, a goblin has been eating travelers, but the priest has yet to run into him
    • Of course, he's really in the goblin's house right now!
    • He's in the house with an old woman in the middle of the woods (totally safe)
  • The woman allows him in and feeds him
  • She leaves to get firewood and tells him, "Don't look in the inner room"
  • The man swears not to, but it's calling to him!
  • He goes into the room, and it's filled with bones!
    • "In once corner skull upon skull rose to the ceiling, in another was a heap of arm bones, in another a help of leg bones" This is a good description! 
  • He figures out that the woman is the cannibal goblin (smart guy)
  • He runs away, but she chases him
    • With a knife!
  • The man prays to the buddha and he is saved!
  • The goblin disappears at dawn
  • If this was me, I would turn this into a "cabin in the woods" type story
  • A young teen travels on a dare and stays in a goblin filled town
  • Then, they discover the closet with the bones and the goblin appears
  • I think in my version, I would make it a bit more funny. Maybe like play up the "don't look in the closet" bit. 
  • The young person would immediately look-instead of wait
  • I would probably also change the ending! Just because it's halloween and I want to be dramatic. 
  •  I would have the teen get eaten by the goblin. 
  • The goblin would win and collect more bones for her collection. 

Image Information:
Tengu and Monk
By: Kawanabe Kyosai 
Found on: Wikipedia 

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