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Interesting to see a trickster/coyote legend from east asia, and fairly recent (last few hundred years). I wonder if there’s a longer tradition in Japan of peop
by vessenes 2y ago
Interesting to see a trickster/coyote legend from east asia, and fairly recent (last few hundred years). I wonder if there’s a longer tradition in Japan of people like this.
- PaulHoule 2y agoThe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-tailed_fox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-tailed_fox is big in the sinosphere.
- Ichthypresbyter 2y agoSome of these stories reminded me a bit of the stories of the religious scholar, trickster and scoundrel Nasreddin Hodja, who uses his wits to get the better of kings and sultans. Nasreddin is AIUI originally a Turkish figure but whose legend exists over the whole Turkish-influenced world from the Balkans to China. Some of the stories have been translated to other cultures- I've definitely heard the one about the time he offers to teach a horse to sing told about a rabbi and the Tsar.
- twic 2y agoI thought the Nasreddin stories were more about him being a bit of an idiot or a scoundrel, but bluffing his way out of it?