Updates
3-4-09: Guys?
Really. Truly. Seriously. If fox spirits are talking to you and telling you that there 13 elements and foxes feed off rock music and you yourself are a reborn fox... stop emailing me. This page is about folkloric foxes. If you want to set the masses straight about foxes, go back to Gaia Online, because this site ain't gonna become your soapbox.
1-2-06: Added a page on the unwritten rules that fox spirits operate by. Also added Amazon links to book entries, since people seem to be finding them useful.
10-24-05: Revamped an FAQ question and added a new misconception, plus a request to give me sources if you think I'm wrong. I've gotten one too many emails that read, "Hi, sorry to have to tell you this but a whole bunch of stuff on your page is wrong. I've studied foxes for aeons, so I know it's true. Bye!" This is a scholarly page. I need sources. There are people out there who swear that Shippou or Kurama or a three-tailed ice kitsune named Kiramekiketsu told them that fox spirits are totally in league with the aliens OMG; until Kiramekiketsu turns up an authentic period source proving that Heian-period UFOs were, indeed, powered with kitsunebi, this page is going to stay sadly unchanged.
/rant off
Thank you.
10-13-05: Added links to a (partial) PDF version of Kitsune: Japan's Fox of Mystery, Romance & Humor to the page of Japanese stories.
9-28-05: Added more Chinese stories and resources and a new Japanese link on fox possession, and broke the Fox FAQ into an FAQ page and a "where to read more about foxes" page.
9-24-05: Added a page of quotes about Chinese fox spirits, a fox spirit FAQ, one of the few existing Chinese stories about gay foxes, Male or Female?, and several stories about kitsune from old collections of Japanese stories.
9-20-05: Added a page on one of the most commonly asked questions,Who and what was Pao-Ssu? I also changed a section in Common misperceptions about fox spirits that was quite thoroughly wrong, updated links, added links to fox stories, pulled stories about kitsuneand huli jing onto their own pages, and added resources to the pages on kitsune and kumiho.
4-21-04: Added five stories to the page on Chinese foxes and did another general tweaking.
4-17-04: Updated all three countries' pages and the Misconceptions page.
1-28-04: Added a page on fox abodes.
4-28-03: Added a page on famous foxes of Asia.
