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Mar 8, 2024 · Song of Solomon 2:15 is a wise and beautiful verse. The vineyards are “in bloom”—the romance is alive and growing and preparing to bear fruit. But there is a need to round up the “foxes”—all potential threats to the relationship must be removed. The foxes are “little”—it’s the little things, the things overlooked, that often ...
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Africa
In Dogon mythology, the fox is reported to be either the trickster god of the desert, who embodies chaosor a messenger for the gods. There is a Tswana riddle that says that "Phokoje go tsela o dithetsenya[Only the muddy fox lives] meaning that, in a philosophical sense, 'only an active person who does not mind getting muddy gets to progress in life.'
Europe
Kuma Lisa is a female fox from Bulgarian folklore and Russian folklore who usually plays the role of the trickster. Kuma Lisa is encountered with another character known as Kumcho Vulcho – a wolfwhich is opposite to her and very often suffers from her tricks. In Scotland, the trickster figure of the fox (or tod in traditional Scots) was represented as Lowrence, as in the Morall Fabillis of Robert Henryson. In Finnish mythology, the fox is depicted usually a cunning trickster, but seldom evil....
Greece
In the ancient Greek story of the Teumessian Fox, the god Dionysus sends a giant fox as punishment to eat the children of Thebes. To defend the children, Creon, the leader of Thebes, sends a dog with special powers to catch the giant fox. Zeus then intervenes and turns both animals into stone and throws them into the sky, where they become the constellations Canis Major and Canis Minor.
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The Medieval Norman adventurer Robert Guiscard was nicknamed "Robert the Fox" as well as the Resourceful, the Cunning, the Wily– underlining the identification of such qualities with foxes. During the American Revolution Continental Army Officer Francis Marion became so adept at attacking and ambushing British forces in the swamps of South Carolinathat he became known as the “Swamp Fox”. During World War II, the German commander in North Africa, Erwin Rommel, was grudgingly nicknamed the "Des...
Figures of speech
The words fox and foxy have become slang in English-speaking societies for an individual (most often female) with sex appeal. The word vixen, which is normally the common name for a female fox, is also used to describe an attractive woman—although, in the case of humans, "vixen" tends to imply that the woman in question has a few nasty qualities. The word shenanigan (a deceitful confidence trick, or mischief) is considered to be derived from the Irish expression sionnachuighim, meaning "I pla...
(in chronological order)4 BC – Aesop's Fablesfrom classical antiquity, contain numerous tales involving a fox.800 – "Renshi zhuan" (任氏传) [The story of Lady Ren] by Shen Ji-ji,: Story of a love affair between Zheng and a were-fox named Ren.921 – Kuzunoha: Abe no Seimei's mother is a kitsune (fox spirit) named Kuzunoha1100 – The medieval story of Reynard, a classic anthropomorphic epic.1390s – Geoffrey Chaucer, The Nun's Priest's Tale, based on an incident in the Reynard cycle.Animation
1. 1937 – Ladislas Starevich's puppet-animated feature film, Le Roman de Renard("The Tale of the Fox"). 2. 1940 – Disney's Pinocchio: J. Worthington Foulfellow (also known as Honest John, and ironically is extremely dishonest). 3. 1941–1950 – Screen Gems The Fox and the Crow: Fauntleroy Fox, one of the principal characters of the animated film series. 4. 1946 – Disney's Song of the South: Brer Fox. 5. 1960 – Hanna Barbera's Yogi Bear series had short cartoons, Yakky Doodle, in which the duckl...
Feature film
1. 1973 – Ukrainian movie director Igor Negrescul's Domino: A Life of a Silver Fox. 2. 1990 – Akira Kurosawa's Dreams: A boy goes to the forest to see where the foxes have their weddings. 3. 1994 – Russian director Ury Klimov's Once Lives a Fox: Story of a fox escaped from the zoo. 4. 2005 – Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Mr. Fox, voiced by Rupert Everett, which is turned to stone by the White Witch. 5. 2006 – Helen the Baby FoxSeven-year-old...
Popular music
1. 1966 – The Hollies & Peter Sellers' "After the Fox"; popular theme song from the movie of the same name 2. 1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Foxy Lady" 3. 1968 – Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "Fox on the Run" 4. 1972 – Genesis' Foxtrot 5. 1975 – Sweet's "Fox on the Run" 6. 1981 – Elton John's 1981 album The Fox, and the title track therefrom. 7. 1986 – Kate Bush's titular single release from her 1985 Album Hounds of Lovereferences a fox in the lyrics. 8. 1996 – Belle & Sebastian's album...
Folk music
1. "The Fox" – 15th century folk song about the animal that has been adapted and recorded by many performers 2. Mr Fox– 1970s folk rock band. 3. June Tabor– Reynard The Fox
Video games
1. Miles "Tails" Prower, a two-tailed fox that can spin his tails like a helicopter to fly, that has appeared in the Sonic the Hedgehog series beginning with Sonic the Hedgehog 2. 2. Fox McCloud, James McCloud, and Krystal from the Nintendo Star Foxseries 3. Keaton of the Legend of Zeldaseries 4. Vulpix, Ninetales, Zorua, Zoroark, Fennekin, Braixen, Delphox, Nickit, and Thievul from the Pokémonseries 5. Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox, a police officer in the Sly Cooperseries of video games....
Comics and visual novels
1. Slylock Fox, in the Sherlock Holmes parody comic strips from Slylock Fox & Comics for Kids 2. Raposão/McFox, a character from the Brazilian comic series Lionel's Kingdom. 3. Fix and Foxi, a German comic series where the title characters are two fox brothers. 4. In Kiss, in Psycho Circus #14 and #15, the members of Kiss are portrayed as supernatural beings who train a Feudal Japanese samurai to outsmart supernatural foxes. 5. Ninjara, a character who appeared in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur...
Card games
1. In the trading card game Magic: The Gathering, Eight-and-a-Half-Tails is a legendary fox monk of great power and purity.
1916, ballet by the Igor Stravinsky Renardc.1036 Wild fox koan, an influential kōan story in the Zentradition1963, 1968, 2002, 2006 Peter Firmin's Basil Brush, British television sock-puppetFlora Fox, The Get Along GangJohnson, T. W. "Far Eastern Fox Lore." Asian Folklore Studies 33, no. 1 (1974): 35–68. Accessed July 1, 2020. doi:10.2307/1177503.Krappe, Alexander H. "Far Eastern Fox Lore." California Folklore Quarterly 3, no. 2 (1944): 124-47. Accessed July 1, 2020. doi:10.2307/1495763.Van Deusen, Kira. "The Fox-Wife." In Kiviuq: An Inuit Hero and His Siberian Cousins, 234–57. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. Accessed July 1, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt813zv.16.Ting, Nai-tung. "A Comparative Study of Three Chinese and North-American Indian Folktale Types." Asian Folklore Studies 44, no. 1 (1985): 41–43. Accessed July 1, 2020. doi:10.2307/1177982.Foxes. (film) Foxes is a 1980 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, in his feature film directorial debut, and written by Gerald Ayres. The film stars Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, and Cherie Currie, in her acting debut. It revolves around a group of teenage girls coming of age in suburban Los ...
Jul 4, 2024 · 1. The Fox and the Hound. Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey. 11 votes. Released: 1981. Directed by: Ted Berman, Richard Rich, Art Stevens. In the heart of Disney's animated feature, The Fox and the Hound, we follow Tod (Mickey Rooney), a red fox kit, and Copper (Kurt Russell), a hound dog puppy.
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The Fox sisters. From left to right: Margaretta, Kate and Leah. The Fox sisters were three sisters from Rochester, New York who played an important role in the creation of Spiritualism: Leah (April 8, 1813 – November 1, 1890), Margaretta (also called Maggie), (October 7, 1833 – March 8, 1893) and Catherine Fox (also called Kate) (March 27, 1837 – July 2, 1892). [1]
Oct 30, 2012 · From “Radical Spirits.”. One of the greatest religious movements of the 19 th century began in the bedroom of two young girls living in a farmhouse in Hydesville, New York. On a late March day ...
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