![]() ![]() After a little, it drifted to the bank and El-ahrairah dragged it out and waited a while before pushing it in again. The pike rushed at it, bit it and left it in disgust. El-ahrairah combed himself until he had enough fur to cover a clay rabbit, which he pushed into the water. Once, so they say, he had to get home by swimming across a river in which there was a large and hungry pike. For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies. ![]() Uncle Remus might well have heard of him, for some of El-ahrairah's adventures are those of Brer Rabbit. ![]() What Robin Hood is to the English and John Henry to the American Negroes, Elil-Hrair-Rah, or El-ahrairah - The Prince with a Thousand Enemies - is to rabbits. Here's how the text describes him the very first time his name appears: El-ahrairah is much more legendary than mythical, more like a hero than a god. ![]()
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