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"Brer Fox Tackles Brer Tarrypin", from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, by Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York 1881.

Cultural connotations

In many cultures, the fox appears in folklore as a symbol of cunning and trickery, or as a familiar animal possessed of magic powers.

In Chinese mythology, huli jing (狐狸精 húlijīng, fox spirits) lure men away from their wives. The Chinese word for fox spirit is synonymous with the mistress in an extramarital affair.

In Japanese folklore, the fox-like kitsune is a powerful animal spirit (Yōkai) known for its highly mischievous and cunning nature.

The Moche people of ancient Peru worshipped animals and often depicted the fox in their art. [1]

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Moche Fox. 200 A.D. Larco Museum Collection Lima, Peru.


The words "fox" or "foxy" have become slang in Western societies for an individual (most often female) with sex appeal. The word "vixen", which is normally the common name for a female fox, is also used to describe an attractive woman, although, in the case of humans, it tends to imply that the woman in question has a few nasty qualities.

The fox theme is often associated with transformation not only in Chinese, but European literature too. There are three main types of fox's stories: description of life of more or less realistic animals, stories about anthropomorphic foxes and tales of fox transformations into humans and vice versa.

Foxes are among the most popular animals in furry-based communities, and there are many people who use an anthropomorphic fox as their alter egos on the Internet or other communities. This popularity is due to many factors, including the popularity of such characters as Miles "Tails" Prower and Fox McCloud, the previously mentioned legends of the Japanese kitsune and fox spirits, and the also previously mentioned connotations to sexual appeal. Humanoid foxes have a tendency to be sex symbols, and this is especially true for vixens.

Literature (in chronological order)

Young Children books

  • 1908,1912, Beatrix Potter included foxes in her anthropomorphic children's tales -- pursuer in The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck and the title character in The Tale of Mr. Tod.
  • 1913, Thornton W. Burgess's The Green Forest - Reddy Fox
  • 1970x, Richard Scarry, series of books, Fixit Fox, a mechanic; also animated
  • 1970, Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox - Mr. and Mrs. Fox
  • 1982, William Steig's children's book Dr. Desoto about a mouse dentist. - Unnamed patient
  • 1990, Judith Mellecker, The Fox and the Kingfisher - picture tale about brother and sister who tried to run away from stepmother and changed themself into fox and bird.
  • 1998 Michel Gagné's, A search for meaning - The story of Rex; continues in comics magazine Flight (comic)
  • 2006, Ali Sparkes Finding the Fox About X-man' world boy whos ability is to change into a fox.
  • 19??, Irina Korshunow, The foundling fox - picture book about fox which lost his parents and adopted by another mother.
  • 1963?, Miyoko Matsutani, ? The bread with color of the fox's tail - story about friendship between a girl and a boy-werefox.

Books with loose fox motifs

  • 1919, Johnston McCulley, Zorro, stories about avenger-in-mask, which alias is a "fox" in Espanol.
  • 1986, 2001 Michael Moorcock's The City in the Autumn Stars; The Dreamthief's Daughter, von Beck fameily met with Reynard, one of the last of fox-human people, eradicated by Christians.
  • 1992-1998, Roger Zelazny's Amber series of novels include a tricky red-haired character named Rinaldo (alias Luke Reynard) who is suggestive of the fox archetype.
  • ????-???? A recent addition is the character of Phillipe Rohan in the series of the same name. [source?]

Movies

Animated Movies and series

Cult Anime

Feature Movies

  • 1973, The Belstone Fox (Free Spirit), fox Tag, Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox"
  • 1973, Ukrainian movie (director Igor Negrescul) Domino: A life of a silver fox
  • 1990, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams – a boy goes to the forest to see where the foxes have their weddings
  • 1994, Russian (Rirector Ury Klimov) Once lives a fox, story of a fox escaped from the zoo.
  • 2001, Jackie Chan's Rush Hour 2, Zhang Ziyi played the character Huli, which means Fox in Chinese.
  • 2005, Andrew Adamson's , Mr. Fox, voiced by Rupert Everett. A fox also appears during a Christmas feast in the novel, and is turned to stone by the White Witch.
  • 2006, Helen the Baby Fox Seven-year old Taichi found a baby fox which named Helen
  • ?? Kazakhstan's movie The last fox - boy rescues fox from the trap
  • ?? Estonia's movie Life of the fox

Video Games, Card Games, Comics

  • Fox McCloud, James McCloud, and Krystal from the Star Fox series of Nintendo video games.
  • Keaton of the Legend of Zelda video games.
  • Pokémon - Vulpix and Ninetales.
  • Miles "Tails" Prower, a two-tailed fox that can spin his tails like a helicopter to fly, from the popular Sonic the Hedgehog series by a branch of Sega; Sonic Team.
  • Inspector Carmelita Fox, a police officer in the Sly Cooper series of video games.
  • Riff and his girlfriend in the computer game "Inherit the Earth"
  • The James Bond parody Spy Fox, star of a computer game series.
  • Crazy Redd, the Black Market salesman from the Animal Crossing games.
  • In Trickster Online, Fox is the female sense type character.
  • The character Reynard in the comic 'Fables' is a Fox based at the 'upstate Fable community' or 'The Farm' where all non human Fables have to live. He is one of the good Fables and has helped save central characters.
  • In the trading card game , Eight-and-a-Half-Tails is a legendary fox monk of great power and purity. {The name of this creature may be an attempt to avoid a copyright violation against Nintendo and Game Freak, as there is already a Pokémon named Ninetales.)
  • Video game series, Metal Gear Solid, the special forces group is known as "Fox-Hound". It has a logo of either a fox carrying a knife in its mouth, or a cartoon fox with a grenade in one hand, and a machine pistol in the other. Fox is also the highest level codename an operative can receive, designating the highest level of skill.
  • Ninetails, a major boss character from the game Okami. Its source of power is the Fox Rods, which contain nine Tube Foxes, one for each tail. During battle with Ninetails, the tails turn into women and must be defeated individually. (It should be noted that this character's name is spelled differently than Ninetales'.)
  • Titus the Fox: To Marrakech and Back, fox mascot in a platform game
  • In the Image Comics series Kiss: The Psycho Circus, the members of Kiss are portrayed as supernatural beings who train a Feudal Japanese samurai to outsmart supernatural foxes. The warrior outsmarts the fox spirits by applying the fox makeup identity of the late Kiss drummer Eric Carr
  • In the video game Drawn To Life for the Nintendo DS handheld system, the charters of the village are "Raposas" which is Portuguese for Fox

Other

Ballet

Web-comics

  • Ozy and Millie, foxes starring in a webcomic of the same name
  • Black Tapestries, a popular webcomic about a drifter who was cursed by a mage into a gray werefox.
  • Tales from Mynarski Forest- webcomics about hare Skippy and Liska, the fox

References

1. ^ Berrin, Katherine & Larco Museum. The Spirit of Ancient Peru:Treasures from the Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997.

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Hu li jing (狐狸精 húlijīng) in Chinese mythology are fox spirits that are akin to European faeries or to the Japanese kitsune. Hu li jing can be either good spirits or bad spirits.
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