Home›Fox Spirits›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups mythical creatures by the wider artistic and religious tradition that pictures them. Wikipedia notes that "in medieval art, animals, both real and mythical, played important roles." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every creature from one cultural tradition together.FactsLearn MoreTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedFoxes credited with long life, magical power and the ability to take human form. The type has separate developments across East Asia - the Chinese huli jing and the Japanese kitsune among them - which are related but are not one being. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedMythical Creatures 1Learn MoreThe Fox Spirits This small group holds a fox spirit, the shapeshifting fox of East Asian folklore (the huli jing, kitsune or kumiho), a being of magic and cunning able to take human form, at once alluring and dangerous. The browser will find the figure the atlas classes here. The entry describes its form and mythological role in the tradition that tells of it.TraditionFilter Results2 entriesBasis of the Membership FigureAllChurch-Reported Rolls (1)Independent Survey (1)Era of Decline End YearAll1976 (1)Era of Decline Start YearAll1966 (1)Establishment StatusAllDisestablished (1)FounderAllNone (2)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (2)Membership Figure As OfAll2016-01-01 (1)2016-12-31 (1)2018-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll1046 BCE (1)712 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll1600 BCE (1)300 BCE (1)Place of OriginAllChina (1)The Japanese archipelago (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (1)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (2)TheologyAllAncestor-centred (1)Animist: persons and powers in land, water and living things (2)Polytheistic: many gods (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareChinese Folk ReligionTradition1 entryShintoTradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folkloretier 1Michael Dylan Foster, University of California Press, 2015the chapter on kitsuneDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.