The Bear as Judge (Finland)

The Bear as Judge (Finland)

A dispute arose among a number of animals, namely the wolf, the fox, the cat and the hare. Unable to settle matters by themselves, they summoned the bear to act as judge. Everyone said, he had a hundred or thousand ways to escape. Only the cat said she had only one way to escape.Then the bear decided to put them all to the test in order to see how each one would save himself in time of danger. He suddenly threw himself at the wolf and crushed him half to death. Seeing what had happened to the wolf, the fox started to run away, but the bear grabbed him by the tip of his tail, and even to this day the fox has a white spot on his tail.

The hare, with his fast legs, escaped by running away.The cat climbed up a tree, and from his high perch sang down, “The one who knows a hundred ways was captured; the one who knows a thousand ways was injured; long legs must run on forever; and the one who has only one way to escape sits high in a tree and holds his own.”

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