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Articles Foxtrot's Collection of Kitsune Lore This page is single-handedly responsible for a great many of the stranger Western interpretations of Asian foxlore currently washing about the web—for example, the idea that foxes are organized into tribes which represent different elements. Folktales Most Westerners first meet foxes through translated folktales, whether in collections of tales from particular countries or in children's books adapted from classic stories. The collections of folktales are listed in the folktale sections of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean pages. I am currently collecting children's books, and will add them as I find them. Novels Johnson, Kij. The Fox Woman. Tor Books, 2000. A well-written, well-researched novel based roughly on a traditional Japanese fox story. Johnson stresses the fox maiden's animal nature far more than any other story I've seen. The result is an original, nuanced take on the fox which illuminates the classic Buddhist belief in foxes' animality. Read an excerpt of the original short story here. Games Japanese fox spirits caught the imagination of roleplayers worldwide. They are now so common in roleplaying games that teenagers are almost as likely to have discovered fox spirits through games as through translated folktales. As "kitsune," foxes appear in |
