Fox pretends to be guarding the sky and watching the earth

Motif

Fox pretends to be guarding the sky and watching the earth.

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Deception into humiliating position – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as K1251.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

JapaneseIkeda.

Within the index

Filed under Holding up the roof. Fox pretends to be holding up the roof; hence cannot help the bear, who must do the threshing alone.

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