Slaying of the Tanuki
Slaying of the Tanuki is a battle of wits between a cunning shape-shifting creature (the tanuki) and a common brown hare just trying to get by. The tanuki’s clever tricks, disguises, and magical powers keep the hare on his toes, but the hare is ready for when the tanuki gets too confident in his own abilities . . . .
Click here to visit the page for Selections from the Pink Fairy Book, collected by Andrew Lang with over a dozen illustrations from H.J. Ford. This volume contains the following stories: Uraschimataro and the Turtle, The Slaying of the Tanuki, The Snow Queen, I Know What I Have Learned, The Wounded Lion, and Ebsen and the Witch.
