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The History of China

#277 - Strange Tales IX: Fox Tails

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A trio of seasonal tales about the Korean version of the classic fox spirit, the kumiho (huli jing [CN]/kitsune [JP]) as well as their implications bout the societies they stemmed from. "The Maiden's Grave" - 02:21 "The Bone The Was a Fox" - 03:39 "The Fox Sister" - 06:22 From: Fenkl, Heinz Inzu. "Fox Wives & Other Dangerous Women." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

0:04.0

Thoughtful Driving Tips from Eso, number three.

0:08.0

This is Kiran. He's doing 70 on the motorway, on his way to a cheeky spar appointment though his

0:14.8

diaries as he's visiting a client. Nautic Kiran, lowering his speed to 60

0:20.4

could save him up to 9% in fuel on the journey.

0:24.4

Enjoy that hot stone massage, Kiran.

0:27.1

Slowing down a little. Hello and welcome to the history of China.

0:37.0

Episode 277, Strange Tales 9.

0:45.0

Fox tales.

0:47.0

Foxtails. Foxwives and other dangerous women.

0:59.4

By Heinz in Sufankle. I saw pale kings

1:05.0

pale kings and princes too.

1:07.2

Pale warriors death pale they were all.

1:10.6

Who cried La Bel d'Am Sans Mercie, Hath thee in thrall.

1:17.6

I saw their starved lips in the gloam with horrid warning gaped wide and I awoke and found me here on the cold hill side.

1:31.1

And this is why I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering.

1:37.0

Though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. John Keats, La Bell Dam Saint-Mercy, 1819, a year before his death by consumption.

1:54.0

In Korea, the most frightening ghosts are the ghosts of young women who have not fulfilled their feminine potential.

2:02.0

In other words, women who died without marrying and

2:04.6

having children, preferably male children. In the old days there was a custom of

2:10.8

burying dead maidens in a flat grave or near a well-traveled road in the hopes

2:15.9

that some passing gentleman would expose to this maiden spirit his most precious thing.

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