[LMB] (Chat) Foxes!

Damien Sullivan phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu
Wed Jul 19 08:18:16 BST 2006


On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:00:00PM +0800, Alex Y. Kwan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 19/07/06, Mark Allums <mallums at tyler.net> wrote:
> >Didn't Miyazaki do Raccoons?  Weren't foxes involved at some point?  I
> >guess it's time I watched that one again.
> 
> Fox spirits feature prominently In both Chinese and Japanese mythology
> (I suspect in other East Asian countries as well?). Raccoons...not so
> much in Chinese mythology.

But badgers though, in China and Japan.  Well, if I trust my
Gaiman-Carey comics. :)

Pandas?  Red pandas seem to be the Chinese raccoons anyway, or at least
the suspected relatives.

-xx- Damien X-) 


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