Fox spirit or fox demon may refer to:
- Huli jing, a Chinese fox known for causing mischief and seducing humans
- Kitsune, a Japanese fox which can be either benevolent or mischievous
- Kumiho, an evil Korean fox over 1,000 years old, which seduces and kills human men
The term is also sometimes used to refer to the literal spirit of a fox in totemist or shamanist beliefs.
Famous quotes containing the words fox and/or spirit:
“Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter’s walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I can’t make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)