Pond spirit - Ikenosei

Japanese: 池の精 - いけのせい
Pond spirit - Ikenosei
This is the title of Grimm's Fairy Tales No. 181, but similar folk tales are found in Northern Europe, Central Europe, Greece, and elsewhere. A water spirit appears before a poor watermill owner and offers to make him happy if he gives him a newborn baby. The man thinks she will give him a dog or cat, so he promises, but when he returns home he finds that he has given birth to a son. The man's family becomes wealthy, and his son becomes a hunter and gets married. However, the son is pulled underwater by the water spirit. The wife goes to a hut on the grass and receives a golden comb, flute, and spinning wheel from an old woman, which she uses to rescue her husband.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
《グリム童話》181番の題名であるが,これと同系統の昔話が,北欧,中欧,ギリシアなどにも分布している。貧乏な水車小屋の主人の前に水の精が現れ,今生まれたものをくれたら幸せにするという。男は犬か猫の子と思ってそれを約束するが,帰宅してみると息子が生まれている。男の家は裕福になり,息子も狩人になって結婚する。しかし息子は水の精に水中へ引きこまれる。妻は草原の小屋へ行き,老婆から黄金の櫛,笛,糸車をもらい,それによって夫を救出する。

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