The story of the son of a peach is a fun folktale from Japanese. In this story, an old man and his wife couple living in the Japanese countryside was lonely because they had no children. As the old lady was washing their clothes in the river, suddenly a giant peach came floating down the stream. She brought him to her husband and when they prepared to cut it open, a baby boy screamed from inside the peach. They reared him as their son. At age fifteen, he left to conquer the evil ogres at Ogre Island. His father gave him a sword and armor and his mother, dumplings. Along the way, he met a dog, a monkey, and a pheasant; he gave each a dumpling and they joined him to fight the ogres. The pheasant pecked at their eyes, the monkeys clawed them and the dog bit them. The ogres succumbed to Momotaro and gave up their treasures. Momotaro returned home, his family became rich and the ogres did not cause them any more harm.