Akatori Tales - Kaidan

The kaidan are ending, only two candles are burning.

— Have you noticed that there are no old women in our monastery? — Well, none that I can think of… although… — Exactly! It’s because of Yamauba. — Who is that? — She’s a vengeful, decrepit hag, Hana. She hides in the mountains and watches over the women in the monastery! — So I’m being watched all the time?! — Yep. — Why? — Yamauba hates old age. She can’t stand to look at it. As soon as she notices the first wrinkles on a woman’s face, she drags her off to the grove and eats her! — A radical solution. Does she avoid her own reflection, too? — She eats her reflections as well, Mako. Anyway, that’s why we only have old men like Tso and Nobumitsu! — Or maybe they’re old women in disguise?

The two candles go out at the same time.

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