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In the 1929 anime Kobu Tori, The protagonist has his facial deformation taken
away by the tengu for being good entertainment and a welcome guest.

When the antagonist follows in his footsteps, he goes to the tengu also to get
rid of the lump on his own face.

![lumpy](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mqXKo.jpg)

Kobu Tori is a silent film, so I wasn't able to translate the dialogue and I
don't understand why does the antagonist steals the protagonist's lump

![No one steals from the tengu.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XyeJl.jpg)

Is it to return it to him? To sell it?


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Why did the man steal the protagonist's lump?


According to
[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengu#In_popular_folk_tales):

> 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.

The mean old man doesn't want to steal it, he wants to get rid of it like the
protagonist did.


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