Print from the series “New forms of thirty-six ghosts”
Once upon a time a young man rescued a wounded heron and nursed it back to health. Later, he met a beautiful young woman. The two fell in love and he married her. His wife was extremely skilled at crafting beautiful fabrics, but she asked her husband to never try to see her while she was weaving. However, one day the man broke the promise and he saw the very heron that he had saved, back on this snowy day. But it was already too late and the heron-woman had to leave him, back to her bird form she flew, far away…
some people today complain that having the internet at our fingertips has spoiled millennials but like, i’m so glad i can look shit up whenever i want to. like can you imagine what it’d be like living in ancient greece and having to rely on herodotus when he says shit like “lions can only give birth once bc their cubs claw their way out of the womb”? i’d have to be like “o damn, guess that’s true” before going back to farming and dying of malaria bc i just thought my neighbor was cursing me again and didn’t go see a doctor
