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Beating(Threat of) bodily mutilationAnimal taleFoxDeception

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.

From Epstein, Tales of Sendebar (1967)

[Added by Jane Bonsall]

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.

Critical Literature
Nishimura (2001), Clouston (1884), Epstein (1967)

Vulpes appears in the following versions and secondary versions

Vulpes is narrated in the following occurrences

Narrator	Pages
Empress	Arabic Version A1001 (Thousand and One Nights), Hebrew Group A, Hebrew Group B, Hebrew Prints, Mishle Sendebar

Vulpes appears in the following manuscripts

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 {{Inset Story
+|Has Critical Literature=Nishimura (2001); Clouston (1884); Epstein (1967)
+|Has Motif=Beating; (Threat of) bodily mutilation; Animal tale; Fox; Deception
 |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.
+From [[Epstein, Tales of Sendebar (1967)]]
+[Added by Jane Bonsall]
+|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.
 }}