One day, an eagle went out to hunt in the wild and encountered a fox also waiting for prey.
They struck up a conversation.
The eagle said, “I’ve given birth to a brood of eaglets, and I need to hunt to feed them.”
The fox replied, “What a coincidence, I’ve also just given birth to a litter of foxes, and I need to catch prey to feed them.”
Both having recently become mothers, they chatted and found they got along well, growing more excited as they talked.
After they both caught their prey, the eagle suggested, “Why don’t you move to live under the tree where I reside? There’s a hollow just right there.”
The fox agreed immediately.
So, they moved in together and became neighbors.
One day, when the fox went out to hunt again, the eagle stretched lazily in the nest, thinking it was a bit tired today and didn’t really want to go out hunting, but what could it feed its eaglets with?
The eagle looked out from its nest, scanning the surroundings, and immediately spotted the little foxes stretching their necks out of the hole, waiting for their mother to come back and feed them.
The eagle thought, “The fox is not here, if I eat the little foxes, she won’t know, and even if she does, she can’t do anything to me!”
With that thought, the eagle swooped down, grabbed the little foxes, brought them back to the nest, and ate them with its eaglets.
When the fox returned home and couldn’t find her children, she asked the eagle, who pretended not to know anything.
However, the fox saw fox fur around the eagle’s beak and fur that had fallen from the eagle’s nest, and she immediately knew that the eagle had eaten her children.
She was furious but helpless, as she could not fly.
Once, a group of people went up the mountain to sacrifice a sheep to the gods.
The eagle, smelling the aroma of the roasted lamb, drooled and without hesitation swooped down, grabbed a large piece of roasted meat, and flew back to its nest to feed its eaglets.
However, it did not notice that the roasted meat still had sparks on it, and as soon as it was placed in the dry grass nest, it immediately set the whole nest and the eaglets on fire.
The eaglets, not yet able to fly, were quickly burned to death and fell to the ground.
The fox, who was under the tree, dashed forward and ate the eaglets.
The eagle came down and said to the fox, “You treacherous creature, we were friends, and you ate my children right in front of me!”
The fox replied, “That’s what I should be saying to you. We were friends, but you betrayed me, secretly ate my children, and pretended not to know. This is divine punishment for you, and it has allowed me to avenge my children.”
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