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A story from the wonders of international children’s stories, collected and formulated by Toshio Ozawa, and the tale of the Goblin Medicine is a tale from old Japanese stories, or more precisely, it is Japanese folklore from past times, which is taught to Japanese children until the end of elementary school. The story of the Goblin Medicine is told as follows. The Beautiful Moon: Once upon a time in ancient days, a Buddhist priest lived in one of the temples. One night, when the moon was full, he went out to the outhouse to relieve himself. When he squatted and contemplated the moon, he muttered: Ah… oh, beautiful moon! ...

After his long journeys in the ocean, Mr. Bahlool arrived at the Coral neighborhood. The Coral neighborhood was beautiful and quiet, but according to Mr. Bahlool’s opinion, it was too quiet. He sat for the first, second, and third days, but no one visited him at his home in the anemones until he heard screaming. It was the mailman who had been stung by one of the painful anemone stings. Mr. Bahlool treated the mailman, then hung a warning sign. The neighborhood residents must be afraid to visit him, so he went out to get to know them, for he loved gatherings of neighbors very much. ...

For a very long time, there wasn’t even day and night, for the sun didn’t rise and there was no earth except mysterious and magical creatures only, and there were two small genies flying very high to the point they were able to scare the people who were passing by, because they were two genies. One day, a great sky goddess appeared to them as they were flying and fighting a lot, in what seemed like an endless game, but they were trying to kill each other, and the game was very dangerous but magical, and they were fighting each other for the favor of the great sky goddess, for each of the genies loved her from all the genies. ...

In the heights of the black mountain and in a mysterious cave that the wicked witch Asura had created, lived a demon but he was a strange demon, not an ordinary creature anyone knew clearly. Everyone called him Kraton by name. He had been placed there by the witch after he continued to refuse to obey the orders of the wicked wizards. And that magical cave had only one entrance and exit, and its location would change every day. But one day, a wicked man named Jifa was able to reach that land. His wish was to destroy and sweep all those rough mountains from existence by destroying them all. And Jifa was in trouble fulfilling his wish. ...

It is told that there was a small cat who was wearing some clothes. While he was working, he took a piece of cloth and tore it into seven rags at once. The cat was very proud of himself, indeed everyone in the village knew him. So he decided to go to sleep. He hung the rags that were torn into one blow, then straightened them as a belt and went out to complete his walk. ...

Once there was a greedy mouse who wanted to eat a lot. He saw a basket full of grains, and he was very happy to eat them. So he made a small opening in the basket, then crawled inside the basket through this opening. While he was inside the basket, he ate a lot of grains until he felt his stomach full, and he was very happy. At that time, the greedy mouse wanted to get out of the basket. He tried to get out through that small opening, but he couldn’t because his stomach had become extremely full due to the abundance of food he had eaten. He tried again, but he couldn’t get out. So the greedy mouse began to cry. While a rabbit passed by him at that time, he heard him crying loudly and asked him: “Why are you crying, my little one?” ...

In a beautiful town in northern England lived a small family. The father worked as a simple engineer, while the mother worked in one of the hospitals. They had a small son named Marc. Marc played continuously and didn’t want to rest. He was always causing trouble for his parents because both the father and the mother worked. Marc didn’t listen to his father’s advice. On the contrary, he played with words and troubles. This affected his father’s work until the father suffered greatly from Marc’s mischief. What annoyed the father most about Marc was that he didn’t wear his clothes completely, but was always late. ...

Once there was a little butterfly that was flying in the corners of the place where she lived. She was weak and delicate, and she was the most beautiful among the other butterflies and shining like the sun. This little butterfly was called “Rosita.” She used to play in the beautiful place where she lived, where beautiful flowers had formed with many colors. Despite this beauty that surrounded her, Rosita didn’t feel happiness because she desired to move to the Blue Mountains, which were very far from her. One day, after much thinking about this matter, she decided to travel to these mountains. While she was flying from flower to flower, she met a small bird that made her smile. She said to him: “Good morning, master bird.” He answered: “Good morning.” Then she asked him: “What happened to your left eye?” ...

One day, two brothers lived in the same village. The elder was extremely rich, while the younger was extremely poor. Both spent their money extravagantly. As for the other, he didn’t have the power of his day, nor did he have suitable clothes to wear, and his family was almost dying of hunger in view of the tightness of his condition. One day, he decided to seek help from his brother and said to him: “My brother, my children are suffering from hunger. Lend me some money to buy food for them.” The brother said: “You ask me for money always, and I won’t give you anything. Go away from here.” The younger brother felt sadness because of this and left. On his way, he met an old man carrying a bundle of firewood. He said to him: “Wait, you seem tired. I will help you.” He said to him: “Thank you.” Then he said to him: “What’s wrong with you? You seem extremely tired.” ...

One day, a group of boys decided to play a collective football game. They agreed that each of them would bring something to be used in the professional match. So one would bring the ball, another the whistle, another would stand as the goal referee, some would bring the goalkeepers’ gloves and the corner flags, and so on. But before starting the game, while they were choosing the participating teams, there was a simple problem: they decided that the boy who brought the most important thing would get to choose the best teams. But they weren’t able to determine which thing was the most important? ...