The Serpent With Eight Heads

This volume was published between 1892 and 1896. Excerpt - After the world had been created it became the property of a very powerful fairy ; and when this fairy was about to die he divided it between his two boys and his girl. The girl called Ama was given the sun; the eldest boy called Susano was given the sea; and the second boy whose name I forget was given the moon. Well the Moon-Boy behaved himself properly; and you can still see his jolly round face on a clear night when the moon is full. But Susano was very angry and disappointed at having nothing but the cold wet sea to live in. So up he rushed into the sky burst into the beautiful room inside the sun where his sister was sitting with her maidens weaving gold and silver dresses broke their spindles trampled upon their work and in short did all the mischief he could and frightened the poor maids to death.