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Sepia-toned illustration on aged rice parchment showing Minh, a sorrowful woodcutter, grasping the hands of his fading spirit wife outside a bamboo hut in the misty mountains of Vietnam. She wears a flowing white áo dài and glows ethereally as she begins to vanish. A small mouse watches nearby. “OldFolktales.com” is inscribed at the bottom right.

The Vanishing Wife: Vietnamese Legend of the Spirit Woman and the Lonely Woodcutter

In the misty mountains of northern Vietnam, where ancient forests clung to steep hillsides and waterfalls sang their eternal songs, there lived a poor woodcutter named Minh. His home was a simple bamboo hut perched on the edge of the wilderness, far from the nearest village. Each morning, he would climb into the mountains with his ax, cutting firewood to

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