One-inch boy

This is about the one-inched boy born at the small house which an old woman and man lived. One day, the one-inched boy realized he would not grow up more than one-inch, and he went to the city for the trip. There, he met the attractive princess out there. During the trip with the princess, a demon attacked them. The one-inched boy beat the demon using his needle. For the reward of the beating demon, the princess made the one-inch boy full human size by using aspecial hammer called Uchide no Koduchi.

The story has been told in various forms around the world. In the United States, the one-inched boy became one of the teaching category at the elementary school.

This is the fairy tale so that a lot of the part is different from the old Japanese tale book called *Otogisoshi. The one-inch boy should be bad character in this book. Can someone make any sense of this paragraph?

See also

• Japanese literature