marzaenna:Trickster Week (6/8)↳ East Asian Gods: Huli Jing (Chinese Mythology)Huli jing (狐狸精; litera
marzaenna:Trickster Week (6/8)↳ East Asian Gods: Huli Jing (Chinese Mythology)Huli jing (狐狸精; literally: “fox spirit”), Huxian (狐仙; literally: “fox immortal”), or Jiuweihu (九尾狐; literally: “nine-tailed fox”) are Chinese mythological creatures who can be either good or bad spirits.The fox spirits encountered in tales and legends are usually females and appear as young, beautiful women. Typically fox spirits were seen as dangerous, but some of the stories in Pu Songling’s Liaozhai Zhiyi are love stories between a fox appearing as a beautiful girl and a young human male. In the fantasy novel The Three Sui Quash the Demons’ Revolt, a huli jing teaches a young girl magic, enabling her to conjure armies with her spells.Belief in fox spirits has also been implicated as an explanatory factor in the incidence of attacks of koro, a culture-bound syndrome found in southern China and Malaysiain particular. -- source link
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