The storekeeper feels suspicious about her, and sews a red thread on the bottom edge of her dress, tracing the thread after she has left, and finds it hung over a grave in a clump of grass.
餅屋の者は怪しく思い、こっそり女の服のすそに赤い糸を縫いつけ、彼女が帰ったあとその糸をたどってゆくと、糸は草むらの墓の上にかかっていた。