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** The fox (usually female) is most always a sly trickster in Russian folklore and works based on it.
*** In one Russian fairy-tale, a living round bread who had managed to escape an old man and his wife, a hare, a wolf and even a bear, was easily tricked by a fox and [[The Bad Guy Wins|eaten]].
** If a fox shows up in a Scandinavian folktale, you know that it's going to at some point trick or at least deceive ''someone'' in an amusing way—and if a [[Everything's Worse with Bears|bear]] shows up in the same story, it's ''going'' to be the victim. There are several tales dedicated purely to the tricky rascal fox tricking and outwitting the simple-minded dimwit of a bear in various ways. (This is so common that the one story where the bear comes out on top [[
** A common punchline in Hungarian fairy tales is that a fox manages to trick several people ([[Take That|usually of a Slavic ethnicity]]) until he's double crossed by a Szekler, who are also known for their wits and unusually non conventional way of thinking.
** [[Aesop's Fables]], probably the [[Ur Example]]:
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