Hey guys, I'm your host, Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of Kowabana,

true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. Have you checked out Village of the Lost yet?

My latest novella is available on Amazon right now, so if you're looking for a quick

and creepy read this summer, go check it out.

It's only 99 cents.

That's Village of the Lost.

And speaking of things that have been lost, this week we're looking at two tales from the rich

folklore of old Japan.

First up, a young man comes from a family that is inexplicably lucky, and this luck

seems to rub off on whoever comes into contact with them.

Why?

Well, it turns out that an ancestor long, long ago had a run-in with a certain fox,

and, well, find out why in Family Protected by the Kitsune.

It seemed that my family was under some sort of divine protection, rather than a curse, and the reason for that was our business partners and associates never got into accidents

or fell ill. On the contrary, they were always promoted or blessed with good fortune.

At first, I didn't really believe in it at all, but we received so many thank you letters and

people who would ask specifically for us, even coming all the way from overseas to see us.

Even large companies would bow to us and beg to work with us.

So over time, I started to think that maybe it really was true.

By the way, my father ran a somewhat small construction-related company.

So it was thanks to this cursed blessing that we started moving around a lot.

Anyway, it was only about 200 years ago that one of my ancestors first learnt to write,

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