Tale 101 — The mystery of a fox that manipulated a dead man
A traveler stayed the night at an acquaintance's house in Toyomane village, and a dead person rose up on the floor. When he looked closely, he saw a fox, a shape-shifting fox, working the body through a hole at the water outlet, and the traveler struck it dead.
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.