Tale 100 — Cutting down a fox disguised as a wife
A fisherman of Funakoshi met a woman who looked like his wife on a night road, believed her to be a monster, and stabbed her to death with a kitchen knife. When he hurried home, he found his wife safe, and she told him she had had a frightening dream. When he went back to the place again, the woman he had killed had turned into the shape of a fox, a shape-shifting fox.
This is an English rendering of our short Japanese summary of the source tale — a summary translated from the Japanese, not a translation of the original text. The summary was drafted and translated with AI assistance, and names and numbers were checked against our records.