Far Eastern Fox Lore

Johnson, Tyler

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“…To conclude, there is no doubt that the relationship between humans and foxes was significant and started as early as the Initial Upper Paleolithic. The effect of this long-lasting link still persists today in the folklore and mythology of many cultures, which depict foxes as beautiful, clever, cunning, and magical beings [135,136].…”

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Foxes in Retrospect—Unraveling Human-Fox Relationships through Fox Tooth Ornaments in the Swabian Jura

Venditti,

McCartin,

Ostermann

et al. 2023

Quaternary

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Personal ornaments play an important role in our understanding of human cultural and behavioral change during the Upper Paleolithic, providing insights into intangible aspects of human cultural behavior. Some ornament forms are better studied than others, and fox tooth ornaments, despite their frequent occurrence and broad spatiotemporal span, are relatively under-addressed. Here we present the first comprehensive study of 40 perforated fox teeth recovered from four cave sites in southwestern Germany. This region’s rich record of symbolic representations, as well as evidence of long-standing human–fox relationships, make the Swabian Jura an ideal case study for investigations of fox tooth ornaments. By applying a holistic approach, including geometric morphometrics and traceology coupled with experimental archaeology, we show that fox teeth were mostly perforated by bifacial scraping and grooving and were worn as ornaments. We discuss the role of foxes within human socio-symbolic and paleoenvironmental systems during the Upper Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura, and we contextualize our results within the broader context of sites across Europe during the Upper Paleolithic. The data we provide are in line with general trends observed across the continent and offer insight into the role of foxes during the Upper Paleolithic, especially regarding human subsistence, cultural expression, and ornament production.

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Foxes in Retrospect—Unraveling Human-Fox Relationships through Fox Tooth Ornaments in the Swabian Jura

Venditti,

McCartin,

Ostermann

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“…animal spirits, are worshiped in Dongbei, whose divine intervention covers the entire local communities, rather than individual households (Liu 2000). Taking fox spirits as an example, as the most preponderant animal deities (Kang 2006: 45-50), they have been highly visible since the Tang (618-907 AD) era (Kang 1999), and the vast majority of fox-related lore prevails in Dongbei (Johnson 1974). As "betwixt and between", the power and efficacy of fox spirits for local cults and subcults can be manifested in social and religious life, because foxes can cross gender boundaries freely and their powers can be deployed "to define the official and unofficial, private and public, and moral and immoral in social and religious practices" (Kang 2006: 8).…”

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Five Great Families and Telepathy: Folk Religion and Buddhism in Neo-Dongbei Fiction by Zheng Zhi

Wang

2022

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The 2010s has witnessed the visibility of literature based on China’s Northeast (Dongbei), exemplified by literary works composed by Zheng Zhi, Ban Yu and Shuang Xuetao, viz. the ‘three masters of Dongbei Renaissance’. In a 2020 novella anthology, Zheng Zhi expatiates upon a veritable cornucopia of representations of folk religion (aka popular religion) and established religions via depictions concerning shamanism, Buddhism and Christianity. In a narrative entitled Xian Zheng ‘Divine Illness’, Zheng Zhi manifests animal worship as a form of folk religion, by means of painting a vivid portrait of shamanic practices pertaining to ‘five major deity families’ that denotes fox, weasel, hedgehog, snake and rat spirits. In a narrative entitled Taxintong ‘Telepathy’, Zheng Zhi depicts Buddhist practices, the preponderant motivations for which are analogous to those for folk religion in contemporary Dongbei, namely, physical wellbeing and psychological solace.

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Koro and the Animal Connection

Chowdhury

2021

Koro

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Far Eastern Fox Lore

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Foxes in Retrospect—Unraveling Human-Fox Relationships through Fox Tooth Ornaments in the Swabian Jura

Foxes in Retrospect—Unraveling Human-Fox Relationships through Fox Tooth Ornaments in the Swabian Jura

Five Great Families and Telepathy: Folk Religion and Buddhism in Neo-Dongbei Fiction by Zheng Zhi

Koro and the Animal Connection

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