Possession by one of these creatures is a Priestess's explanation for Yoshitaro's compulsion to climb, though Suejiro sees it as mental illness in Kukichi Kan's The Housetop Madman.
Possession by one of these creatures is a Priestess's explanation for Yoshitaro's compulsion to climb, though Suejiro sees it as mental illness in Kukichi Kan's The Housetop Madman. In a story from the Uji Shui Monogatari, one of these creatures protects a man from a group of bandits after that man returns the ball he had stolen from this creature. In a tale in the Konjaku Monogatarishu, these creatures trick Kaya no Yoshifuji into thinking that the space under his own storehouse is a magnificent home, where he had wedded a new wife and fathered a son, though he was only missing for 13 days. In Takeda Izumo II's The Mirror of Ahiya Doman, Abe Yasuna is seduced by one of these creatures in the guise of Lady Kuzunoha, the sister of his dead lover Sakaki, and gives birth to his son Doji. For 10 points, name these animals, noted in Japanese literature and folklore for their shape-shifting abilities.
Possession by one of these creatures is a Priestess's explanation for Yoshitaro's compulsion to climb, though Suejiro sees it as mental illness in Kukichi Kan's The Housetop Madman.
Fox Spirit [or Fox Demon or Kitsune or Nine-Tailed Fox] 