Bumbuku Chagama is a Japanese folktale.  As the story goes, a master priest who lives in a temple owns a chagama (tea kettle). When the priest sets the kettle on a hearth, the kettle sprouts a head and a tail and turns into a half-badger, half tea-kettle creature.

 The priest subdues it, and since it reverts to the form of an ordinary kettle, they sell it to a traveling tinker or rag peddler. The kettle reveals its half-badger form to the peddler. The kettle performs tricks for the peddler in exchange for being well-treated. So, the peddler agrees to neither put it over hot flame nor stow it away in a stuffy box, and he shares what food he has.

 The man sets up a circus-like roadside attraction and charges admission for people to see the tea-kettle badger walking a tightrope. The man becomes wealthy and returns the kettle to the temple.