The Fox

The Fox is a secondary trickster of Nivaclé tales, greedy and imitative, who repeatedly attaches himself to Cufalh's schemes and is undone by his own appetite. Where Cufalh's cunning shapes the world, the Fox's failed mimicry supplies comic cautionary episodes.

Domains

• trickery

Powers

• imitates others' feats and is undone

Relations

• companion: Cufalh
• rival: Cufalh

Sources

• Wilbert, Johannes & Karin Simoneau (eds.), Folk Literature of the Nivaklé Indians (1987).