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Quechua trickster tales

Illustration of clever Cuy the guinea pig tricking greedy Atuq the fox beside an Andean river

The Fox and the Guinea Pig

Once, in the time when animals still spoke the language of men and walked the mountain paths as neighbors, there lived a fox named Atuq in the high valleys of the Andes. Atuq was known throughout the region for two things: his insatiable appetite and his cunning nature. His belly was always empty, and his mind was always scheming about

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