The stories in this collection are about a king who decides to help a monk in retrieving a body from a tree. The body is possessed by a goblin who tells the king riddles on their journey back to the kingdom, if the king answers the riddles correctly the goblin escapes and the king must retrieve him again. If the king does not answer the riddle he dies. I keep guessing the correct answer wrong...
The Girl who transposed the Heads of her Husband and Brother.
Which combination of head and body is her husband?
What a whirlwind this story was. The title says it all. I think I can use this story and maybe change the setting to the far future where the brother and the husband exchange their conciseness and the wife has a dilemma on who is her actual husband. Sort of like Freaky Friday.
The Three Delicate Wives of King Virtue-banner.
Which is the most delicate?
Which is the most delicate?
Three wives that are very delicate, one was injured by a falling lotus petal, the other was burned by moonbeams, and the third was bruised by the sound of grinding stone. I got this one right, finally. I can change the story into making the wives indestructible instead of delicate and they end up competing for the king's love by seeing who is truly the least delicate.
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| Image of a goblin holding a die. |
Bibliography:
Twenty-Two Goblins, translated by Arthur Ryder
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