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[[File:Prince Hanzoku terrorised by a nine- tailed fox.jpg|thumb|400px|They're just having a [[Staring Contest]].]]
'''Kitsuné''' (pronounced "kee-tsu-neh") is actually the Japanese word for fox
While their mythological origins have them as divine servants and even [[Our Gods Are Greater|gods of a sort]], they're also classic [[Tricksters]] who mess with mortals for giggles. They usually play their pranks on men, while they have a tendency to [[Demonic Possession|possess]] women. (which shows up as an actual psychological disorder in Japan, similar to [[Our Werewolves Are Different|clinical lycanthropy]] elsewhere) This is probably because for some reason they're usually female (or at least [[Bishonen]]), and often end up falling in love with and marrying human men (in fact, female Kitsuné are considered to make devoted wives and doting mothers). The resulting children are usually not kitsuné themselves, but have magical powers.
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== Web Original ==
* Firefox-ko, an unofficial mascot for Mozilla Firefox, and Foxkeh, the official one.
* David Kintobor has the ability to morph into one in ''[[David Gonterman|American Kitsuné]]''.
* From ''[[SCP Foundation]]'', SCP-953 is ''[[Berserk Button|not]]'' a kitsune. She is a [[Insistent Terminology|kumiho]] (a similar but more malevolent type of Yokai), and you'd [[Hair-Trigger Temper|best]] [[Ax Crazy|remember]] it, because she ''hates'' being referred to as a kitsune.
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