This story describes a boy who often hunts and offers foxtails to a hermit living in the mountains. One day, he sent a rabbit's tail to the hermit, and the practitioner began to cry. The boy was puzzled, and he asked the practitioner why he was crying. The practitioner replied the tears were because the boy's mother was a female demon. The son doubted the words, but quietly followed his mother that night when she went out. She went to the devil's gathering place, and in fact, the boy was supposed to be the dinner that night! But because his mother could not find him, she offered another boy for the demons to devour. The next day, the female demon recognized her son had discovered her true identity, so she used a handful of dirt to turn the son into a puppy. Later, the puppy escaped to the mountain and found the hermit, who turned the female demon into a broom and rescued the little boy.