THE STONECUTTER...

The folktale that I read was a Japanese folktale about a stonecutter who went to a great  rock in the side of a big mountain and would cut out slabs for gravestones or for houses. For a long time, he was happy and contented, he also asked for nothing better than what he had. In the mountain where he worked at, there was a spirit which helped them (stonecutters)  in many ways to become rich.

 One day, the stonecutter carried a gravestone to the house of a rich man, and saw all sorts of beautiful things  that he had never dreamed of. Suddenly his daily work seemed to grow harder and heavier, and he wished that he could sleep in a bed with silken curtains. The spirit that lived in the mountains responded and said, "Your wish is heard; a rich man you shall be."

The way the stonecutter represents a trickster figure is that he takes the easy way out of things by wishing upon whatever he wants instead of keeping his job.

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