Japan Kachikachi Yama

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A wicked tanuki kills a farmer's wife and mocks the grieving old man; the couple's friend, a rabbit, takes up their cause. The rabbit sets fire to the load on the tanuki's back, treats the burns with a stinging paste, and lures him onto a boat of mud that dissolves beneath him, drowning the murderer. Moral: cruelty earns a patient and exacting justice. — Japanese folktale