Kitsuné
See also: Kitsune (homonymy)
In the Japanese Folklore , Kitsune (the Fox) Tanuki and Tengu is the various forms of a polymorphic magic spirit, called mononoke as a group.
The names that one gives them are often female, which means that the kitsune are perceived like a female concept. They are crafty ones, play of the turns and are endowed with magic capacities.
Any fox is supposed to become able to change forms when it reaches a advanced age (often a hundred years), and its capacities do not cease growing with time and in parallel of new tails push to him.
The kitsune are often associated with the divinity of the Riz Inari. At the beginning the kitsune were the messengers of Inari, but the two concepts were comparable with the wire of time one with the other. One finds kitsune at the entry of the sanctuaries of Inari. The kitsune are connected as well to the rites Shinto S, taoists as Buddhist.
The kitsune are often equipped with magic capacities important, like the Possession, the capacity to blow of the Feu, or ignition by rubbing their tails the ones against the others. They can also appear in the oneiric world, create illusions, curve space and time, make people insane, distinguish the illusions, control the heart and the spirit of people and change.
There is several type of spirits kitsune , such as the spectral kitsune (the Bakemono Kitsune of three types: Reiko , Kiko gold Koryo ), or the kitsune celestial ( Tenko , foxes with nine tails, 1000 years old). Kitsunes are according to their type, diabolic (like Kuko , the air fox) or of good omen (like Genko the black fox).
The kitsune are often present in the current folklore, in the Manga S or films Japanese. For example in the manga Naruto , where the main character is inhabited by a demon fox. In Pokémon , Feunard is a fox with nine tails and has capacity psychic and pyrotechnical: it is clearly inspired by the kitsune.
In the cycle Kamigawa of the card deck Magic, the people of the kitsunes appear.
The Japanese dish “kitsune udon” is a soup Udon which contains Tofu cooked, whose Kitsune are considered fond of delicacies.
External bond
A page on the kitsune and the foxes (English)
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