A family prohibition against disturbing the earth beneath an old storehouse leads the Archive to examine inherited beliefs concerning household foxes. No animal or unusual object is found, but testimony suggests the taboo once carried consequences beyond the boundaries of the property.
Tag Archives: Possession
An Archive researcher revisits a decades-old account attributed locally to fox possession. Surviving family testimony and written records agree that something happened, but disagree considerably on what it was, revealing as much about the transmission of kitsunetsuki belief as the original incident.