日本みじかい昔話：菖蒲湯のはじまり -Japanese folktale-
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[{'start': '1.570', 'end': '11.519', 'text': '[Music] A\nshort Japanese folktale. Today\'s story is "The Origin of Iris Baths."'}, {'start': '11.519', 'end': '20.279', 'text': 'Every night a beautiful man came to visit a young girl.  He was well-dressed and well-spoken'}, {'start': '20.279', 'end': '27.080', 'text': 'and appeared to be a man of rank, but no one knew his name or where he came from.'}, {'start': '27.080', 'end': '37.160', 'text': 'Soon my daughter has a baby and her belly gets bigger every day.  The'}, {'start': '37.160', 'end': '43.680', 'text': "girl's mother handed her a needle with thread and told her to stick it into the lady's kimono.  The"}, {'start': '43.680', 'end': '52.760', 'text': 'next morning, the thread was left behind after the man had left.When they followed the thread to trace the man, they found themselves'}, {'start': '52.760', 'end': '60.039', 'text': 'deep in the mountains, where the man had revealed his true nature as a large snake and was talking to himself.'}, {'start': '60.039', 'end': '69.360', 'text': '"My life is not long now, but my daughter is carrying my child, so I hope she does not take an iris bath."'}, {'start': '69.360', 'end': '85.040', 'text': "Upon hearing this, the mother immediately took her daughter into an iris bath.  Then a baby snake dropped out of the girl's stomach and died.  From"}, {'start': '85.040', 'end': '92.159', 'text': "then on, people began to take iris baths once a year on the Boys' Festival to ward off evil spirits."}, {'start': '96.710', 'end': '101.619', 'text': '[music]'}]