In Cinq Cents Contes et Apologues (Chavannes), vol. iii, p. 118, a man who wished to have meat to eat, induced his sons to kill a sheep and offer the flesh to the deity of a tree which stood in their field, telling them that their prosperity was due to this god.
[1] A leaf cup, a reversed cone, would be set point downwards in each cleft, and the cakes be heaped upon it. [↑]
No. 124
The Manner in which a Woman prepared a Flour Figure
In a certain country there are a woman and a man, it is said; the woman is associated with a paramour. The woman has been brought from another country.
One day (dawasakdā) the woman said, “In our country there is a custom. Having constructed a flour figure, and having made it sit upon a chair near the hearth, we must cook cakes and offer them [before it].” After that, the man having sought for the articles for cooking cakes gave her them.
After that, the woman, having pounded flour and made [enough] for two cooking pots, having increased the syrup for one pot, and diminished the syrup for one, and having been there until the time when the man goes somewhere or other (kohedō), told the paramour to come. After having put and smeared flour over the whole body[1] of the man, having brought a chair near the hearth and made him sit upon the chair, the woman sitting down near the hearth cooks the cakes.