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Story No. 933


Position of the Private Parts

Book Name:

Aino Folk-Tales

Tradition: Japan, Aino

At the beginning of the world it had been the Creator's intention to place both men's and women's genitals on their foreheads so that they might be able to procreate children easily. But the otter made a mistake in conveying the message to that effect; and that is how the genitals come to be in the inconvenient place they are now in.

Comments:

Written down from memory. Told by Ishanashte, 11th July, 1886.

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