| Kitsune Legends |
| Once my father was eating his lunch in an open field whan a young boy appeared in frount of him. The boy went first dancing to the right and then, after a pause, to the left. Thinking this strange, father looked to see if anyone eles was around. There, sitting just a short distance away, was a fox. After watching the fox for a few minutes, father noticed, much to his amazement, that whenever the fox's tail moved to the right, the boy automaticaly danced to the right. Likewise , when the fox twisted its tail to the left, the boy danced to the left. Father was so engrossed in this performance that he hadn't noticed the disappearance of his lunch box. The fox had a good meal that day! From: DOJO Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan |
| When I was a girl around the age of eight, I would often hear foxes barking in the bamboo forest behind my home in the country. At night I sometimes saw as many as one hundred or two hundred kitsunes, lanterns in hand, on their way to a wedding. *In Japan, the will-o'-the-wasp (ignis fatuus) is often described as lanterns carried by foxes on their way to a wedding( kitsune no yumeiri) From: Dojo Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan |