An old woman cuts off the leg of an octopus on the beach, and gets rich by selling it at the market. A groom is given botamochi rice balls at his bride`s village. He wants his mom to make them, so he keeps saying "botamochi" on the way home, but then he trips and rises up saying, "dokkoisho! A strong-willed and hardworking mother goes all alone to Ashitaka Mountain, where a Tengu lives. But she doesn`t come back.