No. 7 — The priest did it
For the sake of a priest who, every time he got drunk on sake at a parishioner's house, was deceived by a fox, a shape-shifting fox, on his way home, an acolyte imitated the priest's voice in a field to call the fox out, lured it into a straw sack, and brought it back to the temple. In the main hall the fox tried to escape by transforming into a statue of Buddha, but was made to chant a sutra and so revealed its true form; after being punished it was forgiven, and from then on it no longer deceived the villagers.
- Land
- Shiwa District
- Beings
- fox
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