Grandma's Stories--675--Fairy Vanished !!

This is a story from Japan.There lived a poor couple in a village of Japan.Traditionally they were weavers but the whole village was of weavers,so they could hardly earn money for their bread and butter.Japan was very famous for its silk clothes.Every weaver tried to make a different,attractive design on his cloth.There was a tough competition.The couple also tried to be a part of this competition,and so they also did many experiments on their cloth.Whenever the husband was out,for buying materials or selling cloth,the wife used to do the weaving ,One day while she was weaving her finger got hurt by the machine and she could not know even for quite a long time,the white silk was now with the red spots of different shapes and sizes on all over.when she saw,she was shocked,her husband reached and saw that a big part of the cloth got spoilt ,Both the people were looking each other’s  eyes.At last they decided to sell it as it was.Next day the husband went to the market,and wife was at home feeling very guilty,she had a unbearable pain in her heart,she could not tolerate it and died.In the market,All the customers were attracted towards the red spotted white silk,and within an hour the husband sold the complete cloth on very high price,but when he reached home ,and found his wife dead,started weeping like any thing,neighbours  came and helped him doing the funeral arrangements.At night he heard his wife’s voice”Don’t worry,I will weave the cloth every night,and you will not be a poor man any more,but while I weave nobody should see me,not even you,if any body looks me weaving then I will vanish and never come”the husband agreed,next day on wards,every night he heard the sound of the weaving and found the white silk with red spots in the morning,he started earning a lot,one night he could not resist him self and peeped through the key hole,he found nobody was there,but the machine stopped and he never got such fine  white red spotted silk.