A badger, vixen, and the vixen's cub lived in a forest that was running out of food, so they came up with the plan of one of them pretending to be dead, the other disguising as a merchant, and the “merchant” selling the “dead” animal to a human.
Then they would have money to buy food. The vixen pretended to be dead while the badger was the merchant.
While the transaction was happening however, the badger told the human that the vixen wasn't actually dead, so the human killed her. This infuriated the cub, so he proposed a competition.
They would both disguise as humans and go into the village at different times. Whoever guessed what “human” was the other first, wins. The cub walked towards the village first, but he hid behind a tree.
The badger went into the village, and accused the governor of being the fox, so the bodyguards of the governor beheaded him.
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Japanese Folk Tales
Short Story[Highest Rank #54 in Spiritual on 09.10.17] [#1 in purrawards on 22.2.19] [#32 in Fairytales on 25.11.18] [#421 in Japanese on 03.12.18] I don't own any stories neither the images. These are just some of the major japanese folk-tales. I read these s...
