"Don't spit the pits into the hearth."　The old story from Takayama Part-4 Just then, her parents came back. “What happened?” They shook the girl and splashed water on her face. Finally, she woke up and told her parents what had happened. To hearing this, her mother said, “I told you again and again not to throw things away into the hearth. ‘If you spit the pits into the hearth, they will turn their shape and frighten you,’ I said, but you wouldn’t listen to me.” Her mother cleaned the hearth quickly. She found a pile of pits and a wooden ladle half burned from the ash.