Japanese Tale

japanese-fairy-tales-23There lives in Japan a greedy man and his greedy wife. They never share anything that they have. One day the woman goes to bring water from a big barrel. The surface of the water is as shiny as a mirror. When the woman looks into the barrel of water she thinks she sees another woman looking back at her. She runs to her husband and shouts at him, ”Come quickly a woman is trying to steal our water.”

The man hurries over to the barrel and he looks into it, but he doesn’t see any strange woman. He sees a strange MAN hiding in the water. He calls to his wife. Continue reading