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Raccoon Dog of Nogeyama Zoo by Toshihiro Gamo. Found on wikimedia . The Magic Kettle Story Planning More detailed notes on the story can be found here . This story comes from The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1903). A man lived on the side of a mountain and found a kettle after hearing a weird noise. It was a kettle he had never seen before, but he needed a new one so he cleaned it and began using it. It turned into a creature on the fire, running around his house. He called a neighbor and they caught the creature in a trunk. They called for a salesman to get sell the creature. When they opened it back up, it was a kettle again and the salesman bought the kettle. It kept getting heavier as he moved away from he house. In the night, the kettle transformed into the creature. The salesman decided to create a show out of it and became rich. He returned the kettle and a fee for renting it to the man who originally found it. They all lived happily e...

Fire Kettle. Found on Wikimedia Commons . The Magic Kettle This story comes from The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1903). A man lived in a house on the top of a mountain.He heard a weird noise coming from the room behind him and there was a rusty old kettle in the corner of the room. He didn't know where the kettle came from or how it was in his house. He cleaned it and carried it into his kitchen, thinking that he was lucky because it was a good kettle and those are expressive. He needed a new kettle because his was getting old and had holes. Then the kettle began to warm on the fire and transform into a tanuki. It jumped out of the fire and ran around the room, as you would do if you woke up on a fire. The man had been very proud of his houses athletics, but the animal was now ruining it. He called to a neighbor for help and eventually they got it into a chest. They sat and discussed what to do with the creature, settling on selling it. T...

Traditional wedding at Meiji-jingu, 2006-10-29. Found on wikimedia . The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet This story comes from The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1901). A man and his wife live in a small village where bad luck struck. They eventually had nothing left but their daughter. They set off to start a new life somewhere else. Now the women in the family were working hard and getting things done while the father sat and thought about everything that they used to have. Eventually, he became bedridden. The wife and daughter grieved their loss, becoming sad and morose, getting no joy from life. One day, the mother looked at the daughter and recognized her beauty and was afraid for her. Her mother taught her everything she could. They lived like that for a few years, before the mother became ill. She called her daughter to say goodbye and tell her she would now have to take care of herself. The mother was worried the daughter's beauty w...