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死神の名づけ親(第二話)The Godfather of Death
Shinigami no Nazuke Oya
by グリム ヤーコプ・ルートヴィッヒ・カール · Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
A poor man chooses Death as his son's godfather, gaining the power to see if patients will live or die.
About this story
A poor man seeking a godparent rejects the Virgin Mary and later meets Death, leading to a fateful agreement.
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Source
This text comes from Aozora Bunko (青空文庫), the volunteer-run library of Japanese writing that is out of copyright. See this work on Aozora Bunko
Base edition (底本): 「完訳 グリム童話集(二)〔全五冊〕」岩波文庫、岩波書店
1979(昭和54)年8月16日改版第1刷発行
1989(平成元)年5月16日第15刷発行
Typed in by かな とよみ. Proofread by noriko saito.
Yomimaru changed the spelling to modern kana and modern kanji, and replaced some archaic words with modern ones.
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