Ujishui Monogatari, Volume 4, Chapter 1.
The Fox that Possessed a Person and Ate Rice Cakes.
In ancient times, a priest came to the house of one possessed
by a spirit. When he exorcised the spirit, it entered a medium and said "I am
not a spirit come to do harm, I am just a fox, humbly passing through. My cubs
are in the den under the grave-mound, and they wanted something to eat. So I,
thinking that there must be plenty of food around in a place such as this, have
come to see what there is. Only give me a rice cake or something, and I will
go." And when the fox said this, the people there made rice cakes on a
platter, and this the fox took, and ate one saying "Ahh! So tasty! Ahh!"
Because of this, people complained to one another that the medium, for want of
rice cakes, had only pretended to be possessed.
"Give me paper, that I may wrap these remaining cakes and take them
home, for with them will I feed my wife and children" said the fox, and they
wrapped up the rice cakes in two pieces of paper. The medium took the large
parcel, she tucked it into her garment at the waist with the end sticking up to
her chest. Upon doing this, she said to the priest "send me off! let us now
leave." And when the priest said to the fox "be gone! be gone!" the medium at
once stood up and collapsed. After a while passed she rose, but there was
nothing to be found in the fold of her dress. That the rice cake had
disappeared was strange indeed.