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- Fox's tail pulled out long. (Cf. A2378.3.4.) A2213.4.2
- Why fox's legs are black. A2371.4.2
- Why end of fox's tail is white. (Cf. A2215.5.) A2378.8.1
- Why end of fox's tail is black. A2378.8.1.1
- Wisdom from eating fox's heart. B163.1.1
- Transformation: fox's heart to rattle. D457.15.1
- Hair from fox's tail opens all doors. (Cf. D1023.2, D1557.) D1562.2
- How far from earth to heaven? A calf's (fox's) tail, if it were long enough. H682.1.7
- King observes retaliation among animals: becomes just. Dog breaks fox's foot; man breaks dog's; horse breaks man's leg; horse steps in hole and breaks his. J52
- Fox and panther contest in beauty. Fox's spirit worth more than panther's skin. J242.3
- Bear builds house of wood; fox of ice. Fox's house fails him in summer. J741.1
- Fish refuse fox's invitation to live on dry land and thus escape danger of fishermen. J758.3
- Coyote wears fox's rattle; caught in brush and injured. J2136.1
- Deceptive grain division: the corn and the chaff. The bear chooses the chaff because of its greater bulk. At the mill the fox's grain makes a different sound from the bear's. K171.2
- The bear helps the fox's mother get berries: the fox eats them. K461.1
- The substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his own. K471
- Fox's plan detected by crickets: cricket wings in his excrement. K2061.10
- Fox's tail drops and frightens animals. In war between birds and quadrupeds the fox's lifted tail is to be the signal for the attack. Gnats sting the fox under the tail. He drops it and the quadrupeds flee. K2323.1