December 9.
The Listening Hood

Japanese folktale.
The deity Inari gifts a kind-hearted old man a hood that allows him to understand the language of plants and animals.

The old man goes around using the hood to listen, and warns people when they make decisions that hurt nature. He saves a tree that people keep cutting back to make space for a house, and a snake that is pinned under a roof.

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