"This, then, was the story the old man related to me beside the waterfall. 'You,' he continued, 'probably saw the monkeys around the house, as well as the toads and bats. There are also rabbits and snakes. All of them are travellers the girl has bewitched and taken down to the river to bathe, and there she transformed them into animals of one sort or another.'

"When the old man told me this, I recalled the odd way the toad had followed the woman, and the way the monkey and the bat had clung to her. I remembered those monstrous demons that had attacked the house during the dead of night. Now at last all these peculiar happenings made sense to me.