Kancil Sticky Figure

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Raiding a farmer's cucumber patch, Kancil meets a silent human-shaped figure smeared with sticky sap set there to guard it. Insulted by its silence, he strikes it — and is held fast, fist after fist, until he is stuck all over and caught. Moral: it is pride and temper, not the trap, that truly bind us. — Sang Kancil (Malay folklore)