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Fox Spirits
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Fox Spirits covers the Japanese Kitsune, a fox that gains wisdom, magical power and additional tails with age, capable of shapeshifting into human form. The category is reserved for fox spirits of this kind as comparable figures from other traditions are added.
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What Defines This GroupingFoxes credited with long life, magical power and the ability to take human form. The type has separate developments across East Asia - the Chinese huli jing and the Japanese kitsune among them - which are related but are not one being. 2 Learn More
The Fox Spirits
This small group holds a fox spirit, the shapeshifting fox of East Asian folklore (the huli jing, kitsune or kumiho), a being of magic and cunning able to take human form, at once alluring and dangerous.
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