According to the record of the snow spectrum in North Vietnam, the fox spits fire. But, look carefully, it is the gas exhaled by the fox that burns in the air.

There are different opinions about fox fire. For example, Wen Qi Thought Record records opinions from all over the world. When the fox started the fire with the horse bone in his mouth, the local saying in Mino is to light the horse's toenails and let the fox start the fire.

People who see "fox fire" at night are likely to get lost when walking, or lose something, and even some people will become foxes. There is no better way to explain all kinds of incredible phenomena than foxes.

2, the legend of fox possession

Foxes like to haunt people's places and interact with people frequently. But in folk stories or fairy tales, foxes often play a clever and cunning role.

For example, I cheated the owner of a fish shop to eat delicious fresh fish, used other animals for my own benefit, or thought I should never be fooled by a fox, but I was fooled by a fox. Like Kenji Miyazawa, I have written similar fairy tales.

It is said that in Shimane Prefecture, there is a kind of monster called "human fox holding" (smaller than ordinary foxes, similar to weasels, often appearing in houses), which is also called "fox messenger".

If someone hates it for no reason, it will be attached to that person. Once possessed by this fox, it will be over, and words and deeds will become surly and abnormal. It's not that simple to handle. But no matter what you ask, people possessed by foxes can answer like a flood.

For example, ask "Where are you from?" The fox replied, "I am stationed in Yamaguchi Taro." Then he asked, "Then why did you come here?" Answer: "because I want to avenge my master!" " The questioner said to the fox, "But I'm not here. Let's leave as soon as possible! " "The fox who refused to leave wanted to make a deal:" You can go back, but you have to agree to my request. "The man asked," what requirements? The fox answered him quickly, "I want to eat red bean rice, tofu soup and snapper sauce." "I still drool after eating, and I look greedy.

So he had to provide rich food according to the fox's request, and the possessed person wolfed it down with relish, but the man's eating was really ugly, just like the fox's eating. After a full meal, I was still dissatisfied and said, "If you don't give me the land where this house belongs, I will take this man's life at once!" "

At this point, the people around him immediately suppressed the person who was possessed by the virus and said, "OK, now I will kill you with acupuncture!" " "Then he looked back and forth on the man's face and applied hot compress to the place where there was a lump, so the possessed man immediately knelt down and begged for mercy:" I'm leaving at once, please spare me! ""However, the other party ignored it accordingly, and just burned it two or three times in the face with a needle. The possessed person must escape from the window. After struggling for a while, he suddenly fell to the ground and fainted. When he woke up, the possessed fox had disappeared.

3. Take the fox home as a wife.

In Japanese folktales, the fox is one of the common monsters. As early as the ninth century AD, the legend of the fox demon was recorded in the Japanese paranormal. It is said that a man met a beautiful woman in the wilderness, married her, and gave birth to a child in Daye County (present-day Gifu County) of MINO County.

I didn't expect his wife to be a fox. One day, after showing his true colors, he barked like a dog and returned to the wilderness. The husband still calls the fox and says, "Please don't forget me!" " ! The child still needs your care, come back to sleep quickly! "The last sentence is" come back to sleep! "in the local dialect, it is pronounced kitune, which is similar to the Japanese fox pronunciation. It is said that the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese character "fox" comes from this.

4. The origin of eyebrow salivation

I often refer to "suspicious things" or "unbelievable things" as "eyebrow saliva" This means that if the root cause is investigated, the superstition of wiping saliva on eyebrows is related to the "fox". In this part, we can refer to some sayings in Han Zhen's book: In the world, it is meaningful to wipe saliva on your eyebrows when you meet foxes and ghosts.

When the 56th emperor of Qing Dynasty was young, Zhong Rengong worked as a bodyguard. Emperors usually hate monsters like foxes. One day he was playing in the south yard, and the fox passed by and immediately followed the grass.

Seeing this, Zhong Rengong, who was on standby, said half jokingly, "Your Majesty, please allow me to surrender to the demon king according to your imperial virtue. What do you think? " So the emperor, who was only eight years old, mistook "enchantment" for "caressing eyebrows" and caressed them with his fingers to escape.

Later generations put their saliva on their eyebrows whenever they encounter ghosts to ward off evil spirits and spread false information. This is the origin of "eyebrow salivation"

The fox will also become other monsters.

In addition, foxes will disguise themselves as other monsters to make trouble. In The Legend of Taiping Hundred Schools, a woman left a wooden bucket full of rice in a wholesaler's shop in Fuji, Kyoto, but a fox claiming to be Zhentian Mountain appeared from the bucket, which looked like a big bald monk with a long neck. Since then, potatoes have often become wetter and dirtier in this family's residence, and the owner is miserable. So she expressed her hope to send him away and supply red bean rice and rice for three days in a row. So foxes sometimes have a whim and become other monsters to play pranks on the earth. ?

6, the legend of jade algae

Legend has it that its demon is a nine-tailed fox, a monster who turned into a peerless beauty to confuse the king. She was born in India. When she traveled to China, she became a sister in Xia Jie and da ji in Shang Zhouwang. When the Shang Dynasty perished, she was hunted by Jiang Ziya and forced to travel across the ocean to Japan, calling herself "Tamamo no Mae", which won the favor and trust of Emperor Bird Feather.

At that time, Tamamo no Mae was favored by the emperor's bird feather, and the emperor gave him the name Tamamo no Mae. Like the legend of Dou 'e's injustice, Tamamo no Mae lured the emperor to fall ill and fall on the bed regardless of state affairs. Ministers began to doubt her, and asked Abe Taicheng to investigate her secretly, and confirmed that the emperor who had been transformed by Kyubi no Youko's evil fox for thousands of years became angry and ordered the killing of Tamamo no Mae.

In the end, she was captured and killed by a mysterious person, but her ambition and obsession were left on Nasuno in the form of a "killing stone" (a stone that spewed venom to attack birds and insects, making animals inaccessible), waiting for a chance of revenge.

Legend has it that this Tamamo no Mae is golden, with Kyubi no Youko, resplendent and magnificent. The ancestors of this jade algae are said to have come from China and India, and I don't know when they came to Japan. Through the combination of Da Kini belief of Shintoism with Taoism and shrines, he joined a lot of demon forces and formed a fox.