 " The Tengu 's Gourd " ( 天狗の瓢箪 , " Tengu no Hyōtan " ) : A gambler meets a tengu , who asks him what he is most frightened of . The gambler lies , claiming that he is terrified of gold or mochi . The tengu answers truthfully that he is frightened of a kind of plant or some other mundane item . The tengu , thinking he is playing a cruel trick , then causes money or rice cakes to rain down on the gambler . The gambler is of course delighted and proceeds to scare the tengu away with the thing he fears most . The gambler then obtains the tengu 's magic gourd ( or another treasured item ) that was left behind . 
