Status Updates From Myths and Legends from Kore...

Oh, that was the last story

So in this story here the baby is a fox. Odd when the mother was a fox the baby was human but when the father is a fox the baby is a fox. And the author compares this story to the ms fox story by the brother's grimm, so does that mean the male fox here is an actual nine-tail?

I am so not surprised that the powerful fake mountain spirit was a large and ancient fox.

I am not surprised that the turtle with the three tails turned out to be the dragon king of the sea. I vaguely remember that story.

This empress of China was a fox who "had escaped from the tree the previous year"? What tree? The story didn't mention any tree. And odd that the fox did not transform her paws into hands and so the younger brother could recognize her as a fox. Usually the tale is not transformed.

in this story, the fox is stated to have one tail. I noticed that so far the only number of tails given for these foxes, if any, was one tail. And while there are some outliers (why isn't the story of the black buddhist fox not here?) mostly the foxes here are female seductresses or man-eating monsters (so far mostly men). There is one of a great man being the offspring of a fox woman though.

so several man-eating foxes now, starting with a woman and later men, and they basically run across a tiger and the tiger kills all of them. And the tiger dies of exhaustion. So the foxes must have some strength, since they are not stated to have weapons.

so this fox sister was the spirit of a fox and not a fox herself? I doubt that there is a translation issue here because so far none of the foxes or other animals transforming into humans were considered spirits. So maybe this is some spirit of a fox being reborn into a human family (like some snake in another Korean tale) and therefore the girl can take on the form of a fox.

Fox stories... hm, I admit I would have expected them to come before the bear stories considered the popularity of nine-tailed foxes today.

I remember the tale of the bear and wild boar changing into humans and rescuing the villagers. I just don't remember that they could transform into tortoises as well. And it is unusual that an animal in such stories can change into humans and other species.

oh, the story about how the dragon king needs a rabbit liver to be cured again. Of course the turtle did not manage to get him down to the palace.

oh, the stories about the farting women. Boy, they really should have used them as weapons in war. No joke, one could shoot down apples from the tree with her farts.

The story about the people who saw a mirror for the first time again... oh boy, sometimes reading the same story is tiring, just like all these long or boring stories in here. Sure the author was thorough but was that necessary?

The spirit of the boy was around for years and could just enter the body of a recently deceased? That should have happened more often than.

Oh, so here the bone the guy pissed on was a transformed fox.... did the guy not think it weird that said bone answered his questions?

of course the guy was a fox. How else could he get from Korea to China to the grave of some wise man? No need for some identity test

So this nine-tailed fox doesn't want to kiss because then the bachelor would know she was a fox? Why? All the apparent sex before was fine but not the lips? Does she have fangs or what?
and naturally the guy in the next story stol his magic cloak from dokkaebi.

oh, the story of the thankful swallow again, and then the greedy brother kidnaps and injurs another swallow in hope to get the same reward.
And here it is not the boy who cried wolf but the boy who cried tiger. And here he gets eaten by a tiger.
and a story where fathers were once abandoned in old age... him, did that happen back in the days?

once more a flood and once more humanity starts with siblings... the only diffferent things is that here the flood was an accident because some heavenly jar fell down.

Wow, that daughter-in-law apparently had to smack her mother-in-law several times before she changes her behavior.

Suuuurrrrreeee, the rapist had nothing else to think of than killing his victim.

is it really filial to kill your child because the grandmother gives him her food?