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No foxes in Hawaii, but is that. . . . ?
“ A fox
passing through the wood
on business of his own
stopped several minutes
and sniffed. ”
J.R.R. Tolkien,
The Fellowship of the Ring
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Bushy tail, pointy snout, ears pricked-
Ready to bolt at their approach
Ready to bolt at their approach
“ Hungry for beautiful words,
the fox comes rooting
around in the hedge. . .
He reads my mind
with one glance and is
gone. ”
Jay Woodman
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Beguiled by a Kitsune!
“Nothing's perfect,"
sighed the fox. ”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Little Prince
" When a fox is fifty years old,
it can transform itself
into a woman.
When it is one hundred,
it becomes
a beautiful woman
or a shaman;
Some become men
and have sex
with women.
They can know events
from more than a thousand li away
and are good at witchcraft,
beguiling people and
making them
lose their senses. "
Guo Pu,
Records from Within the Recondite
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Thank You
for magically
appearing here!
appearing here!
Warmly, cloudia
Books and Theses on Spirit Foxes:
Bathgate, Michael R. The Shapeshifter Fox: The Imagery of Transformation and the Transformation of Imagery in Japanese Religion and Folklore. Chicago: The University of Chicago, June 2001. Doctoral thesis.
Blacker, Carmen. The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Japanese Shamanistic Practices. Routledge Curzon, 1999.
A thorough description of Japanese shamanism that includes an entire chapter on magical animals, including kitsune.
Davis, Winston. Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980.
A study of the Sukyo Mahikari sect, a religion that believes in possession by spirit animals and the dead. The author describes several cases of fox possession and exorcism. Link
20 comments:
Ohh I looove that little fox and the saings from famous writers!!Specially I like the Tolkien:)))Lord of the Rings..bestmovie ever! :) [•ิ‿•ิ]❀
nice quotes
I have to confess that the first two photos got me, Cloudia! ;)
A lovely post, playful and romantic.
And there was I thinking you had actually discovered an unknown phenomenon.
Still, I enjoyed myself.
Cloudia, I love these quotes and the "fox" images. Very cute.. have a happy day!
very cool fox. :)
Oh you're a cheeky one Cloudia :) you had me fooled for a sec, I thought 'foxes in Hawaii.. maybe?' :)
Ha!
You had me fooled.
P.s. I wonder if there were any Aussies out there riding the Hurricane Ana waves? Thankfully Pixie didn't become survival dinner :) :)
I first tought it was a cat. Nice pictures.
Greetings,
Filip
Very, very cool. Of course the Chinese fox fairies beguile men with their insatiable appetites for sex...They literally drain the men dry.
You fooled me at first too! ;-)
I totally fell for it. :) I think you couldn't manage to sculpt something to look more like a fox from a distance than this. Very cool.
You had me looking more than once and wondering!
SO cool that you folks (esp the Canadians :) who HAVE seen foxes were fooled! I wasn't sure that this would "fly" but a Teresa points out: Fox Spirits are powerful beings in Asian culture.
Yes, Perth, I'm certain that some OZ folk are here thoroughly enjoying NATURE!
Thanks each of YOU! I really enjoy our sharing-
LOl.....for a moment there i thought it was...
ha. you had me for a second....we had a little kit that played around the outfield fence at the baseball field...it was cool to watch him play....
aloha from va
congrats on your POTW!
Definitely got me!
Well done...very foxy.
HA! This is awesome. You got me with the first shot, then I thought, mongoose? Clearly not. Clever clever you. Congratulations on your POTW!!!
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