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Bonsall at 17:16, 28 November 2025

2025-11-28T17:16:39Z

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	A fox sneaks into town, but is caught inside the gates at nightfall. Feigning death in attempt to escape detection, the fox withstands one abuse after another for a while - its tail is cut off for a brush, an old woman plucks out its eye for a talisman, etcetera - but when it faces life-threatening injury, the fox can no longer lie still and leaps up to run away.		A fox sneaks into town, but is caught inside the gates at nightfall. Feigning death in attempt to escape detection, the fox withstands one abuse after another for a while - its tail is cut off for a brush, an old woman plucks out its eye for a talisman, etcetera - but when it faces life-threatening injury, the fox can no longer lie still and leaps up to run away.


			From [[Epstein, Tales of Sendebar (1967)]]

			[Added by Jane Bonsall]
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			\|Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Epstein (1967)
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	\|Has Summary='''The Fox'''		\|Has Summary='''The Fox'''

	A fox sneaks into town, but is caught inside the gates at nightfall. Feigning death in attempt to escape detection, the fox withstands one abuse after another for a while - its tail is cut off for a brush, an old woman plucks out its eye for a talisman, etcetera - but when it faces life-threatening injury, the fox can no longer lie still and leaps up to run away.		A fox sneaks into town, but is caught inside the gates at nightfall. Feigning death in attempt to escape detection, the fox withstands one abuse after another for a while - its tail is cut off for a brush, an old woman plucks out its eye for a talisman, etcetera - but when it faces life-threatening injury, the fox can no longer lie still and leaps up to run away.
			\|Has Note=Nishimura notes relevant motifs and analogues for this fable:

			'''Motifs:''' TMI K522: Escape by shamming death; ATU33: The fox plays dead and is thrown out of the pit and escapes.

			'''Analogues, references:''' ''Dai Chido-ron'', 14.23 (''Taishozo'' 25, 162c~163a. Julien, No.23); ''Pantschâkhjâna-Wârttika'', 41 ‘Der Schakal, der Bulle und die Tiere des Waldes‘; Attar, ''The Ilahi Nama or Book of God'', 14.10: 'Story of the fox that was caught in a trap’; ''Conde Lucanor'', 29 ‘Wie es einem Fuchs, der sich tot stellte, ergangen‘; Ruiz, ''The Book of Good Love'', 1412-1420. In ''Le Roman de Renart'', lines 501-522 of 16: ‘The Story of Renart’s Framing of Isanglan in the Well’, a wolf pretends to be dead and runs away.

			'''Bibliography:''' Chauvin VIII 29; Landau 35.
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A fox sneaks into town, but is caught inside the gates at nightfall. Feigning death in attempt to escape detection, the fox withstands one abuse after another for a while - its tail is cut off for a brush, an old woman plucks out its eye for a talisman, etcetera - but when it faces life-threatening injury, the fox can no longer lie still and leaps up to run away.
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