Aesop wrote stories about this animal paired with a sick lion and a crane, and this creature works with Tommy Brock in a story by Beatrix Potter.
Kuzunoha [koo-zoo-no-hah] is one of these creatures, and takes the form of a woman in a Japanese legend. Aesop wrote stories about this animal paired with a sick lion and a crane, and this creature works with Tommy Brock in a story by Beatrix Potter. This creature is known as (*) kitsune [kee-tsoo-nay] in Japan and as Tod in England, and is the title subject of the Reynard cycle in France. For 10 points, name this archetypical trickster, a red, bushy-tailed mammal.
Kuzunoha [koo-zoo-no-hah] is one of these creatures, and takes the form of a woman in a Japanese legend.
foxes (accept kitsune or spirit-fox before "Aesop" is read)