[LMB] (Chat) Foxes!

[Alex Y. Kwan]

Hello,

On 19/07/06, Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> But badgers though, in China and Japan.  Well, if I trust my
> Gaiman-Carey comics. :)

For, um, eating at least. Though there are myths about how a badger
would keep a human warm if he/she has fainted in the snowy mountains.
But most don't transfigure into human shape after a certain number of
years, unlike the foxes of legends.

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

Well, there is one supposedly historical story in which one of the
emperor's concubines stole the newborn of another concubine (because
the child is the heir-apparent), replaced it with a racoon (or raccoon
dog or something), and then accused the other concubine of being a
succubus/evil spirit/demon.

little Alex