He waited for a long time. He couldn’t wait anymore. He decided to walk into the darkness. He put a tiny fire on the tooth of the comb on his head.
After a long walk, the fire showed him a terrible figure of his wife. Her husband froze, then he ran away.
She noticed him and cried, “You saw me!” She got angry and sent her soldiers to her husband who had broken his promise.
To be continued, Isolated Connected Kyushu Island, page 186,
a story from Kojiki=古事記, the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712),
Photo, Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld, JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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