Fox-Girl Legends
The composite oracle poster joining I Ching 64 and Tarot Major Arcana 17, prompted a search for fox-girl figures. Conductive inference moves through information, finding a path as it goes, more like crossing a stream with two stones, rather than building a bridge. It is a way but not a method. My juxtaposition suggested there could be a hybrid joining the two beings, an intuition confirmed by a search, identifying an ancient legend and tradition of tales in Asian folklore of the Fox-Girl shapeshifter trickster character . Kitsune is a shapeshifting trickster fox woman from Japanese folklore whose character and personality resembles the crafty, playful, elusive, clever fox from the wild. She is a type of yōkai , a class of magical creature with paranormal powers. She often has two different sides: sometimes she is a benevolent deity associated with the gift of the rice harvest, while at other times, Kitsune is depicted as a demon or ghoul-like mischievous trickster who que...