Folk Legends
Tengu no Kakuremino
"Mm, this is all delicious." Hikoichi walked around the room and ate and drank to his heart's content. Now, the others of course could not see him, so in their eyes, bits of food would mysteriously disappear from their plates, or a cup would float up and, the next moment, the sake would vanish from the cup.
This scared the wits out of them, and at first they thought, "Could this be the doings of a ghost?" Soon, however, they saw what seemed to be a mouth gradually appear out of thin air. "How queer, that looks like someone's mouth," they marveled. And as they kept looking on suspiciously, the tip of a nose and the palm of a hand also appeared. Hikoichi was so busy eating and drinking that he did not notice the ashes coming off from parts of his body.