きつねのりの
から、のあるでは、れたにのでさなりがんでくのを「きつねのり」とぶ。はこのりをると、きつねがにけてりのをっているのだとえていたものだ。には、とばれるで、はいまだにはっきりしていない。をでくは、りにづきすぎてにいがちだったため、の々はこのをれ、にかめようとはしなかった。でもこのでは、るをたとるがいることがある。
文法
- 「~ものだ」は、過去の習慣や、一般的に人々がそう考えていたことを、懐かしむように述べる表現。
- 「~がちだ」は、ある傾向が強く、そうなりやすいことを表す表現で、「よく~する」「~しやすい」という意味を持つ。
- 「~ことがある」は、頻繁ではないが、時々そのようなことが起こる、または起こった経験があることを表す表現。
English
The Legend of the Fox's Wedding
Since long ago, in a certain region of Japan, when small lights are seen moving in a row on the mountainside on a clear night, this has been called 'the fox's wedding.' Villagers, upon seeing these lights, used to think that foxes had transformed into humans and were forming a wedding procession. In reality, this is a natural phenomenon called 'foxfire,' and its true cause is still not clearly understood. People who walked alone on mountain roads at night tended to get too close to the lights and lose their way, so people in the past feared this phenomenon and did not try to investigate it by force. Even today, in this region, there are occasionally people who say they have seen a glowing procession.
- 「~ものだ」is used to reminiscently describe a past habit or a belief that was commonly held, often with a nostalgic tone.
- 「~がちだ」expresses a tendency for something to happen easily or frequently, meaning 'tends to ~' or 'apt to ~'.
- 「~ことがある」expresses that something happens occasionally, or that one has had the experience of something happening, though not frequently.