No. 10 Grandma's got milk The story begins with an allusion to a Chinese parable about a daughter-in-law who breast feeds her mother-in-law when she is unable to eat. Then it relates the story, reported in Yomiuri shinbun No. 85, of a grandmother in her seventies who is able to produce milk from her wrinkled breasts for a grandchild born in 1874 to a mother who then died. Other news nishikie relate stories in which a deceased mother's ghost comes back to nurse a baby. Tsuchiya 1995:216, 218-219 |
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