 " The Old Man 's Lump Removed " ( 瘤取り爺さん , Kobu @-@ tori Jiisan ) : An old man has a lump or tumor on his face . In the mountains he encounters a band of tengu making merry and joins their dancing . He pleases them so much that they want him to join them the next night , and offer a gift for him . In addition , they take the lump off his face , thinking that he will want it back and therefore have to join them the next night . An unpleasant neighbor , who also has a lump , hears of the old man 's good fortune and attempts to repeat it , and steal the gift . The tengu , however , simply give him the first lump in addition to his own , because they are disgusted by his bad dancing , and because he tried to steal the gift . 
