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- In legend, the old hag of Adachi killed and robbed any travelers's who stopped her hovel; the hag's daughter, desperate to stop her killing, finally disguised herself as a man. The hag smashed her brains out with a stone and then, realising her mistake, hurled herself into the pond and drowned, still clutching her daughter's corpse. Another version of the legend was most famously depicted by ukiyo-e artiest Yoshitoshi in Oshu Adachigahara Hitotsura No Zu ("Picture of the House on Adachi Moor in Oshu"), 1885), a vertical diptych showing a heavily pregnant, bare-breasted young girl suspended high in the by a rope binding her ankles; below her the old hag of Adachi, a cannibal witch, prepares to hack out the girl's unborn foetus with a knife.