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Updated: May 28, 2025
A kite will drop five miles to filch a tai out of a fish-seller's bucket, or a fried-cake out of a child's hand, and shoot back to the clouds before the victim of the theft has time to stoop for a stone. Hence the saying, 'to look as surprised as if one's aburage had been snatched from one's hand by a kite. There is, moreover, no telling what a kite may think proper to steal.
And it is said, also, that he who has once been possessed by a fox will never again be able to eat tofu, aburage, azukimeshi, or any of those things which foxes like. But if he goes close to still water, his SHADOW can be seen in the water. Those 'having foxes' are therefore supposed to avoid the vicinity of rivers and ponds. The invisible fox, as already stated, attaches himself to persons.
By no grasp can it be so tightly compressed by a strong hand that it will not slip from under the fingers. Possessed folk are also said to speak and write languages of which they were totally ignorant prior to possession. They eat only what foxes are believed to like tofu, aburage, azukimeshi, etc. and they eat a great deal, alleging that not they, but the possessing foxes, are hungry.
Some say that when a very poor man he found in the woods one day a little white fox-cub, and took it home, and petted it, and gave it plenty of tofu, azukimeshi, and aburage three sorts of food which foxes love and that from that day prosperity came to him.
The traveller was quite hungry, and only too glad of the offer. The young woman kindled a little fire, prepared a few dishes in silence stewed leaves of na, some aburage, some kampyo, and a bowl of coarse rice and quickly set the meal before him, apologising for its quality. But during his repast she spoke scarcely at all, and her reserved manner embarrassed him.
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