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Contents

Cultural connotations

Literature (in chronological order)

Young Children books

Books with loose fox motifs

Movies

Animated Movies and series

Cult Anime

Feature Movies

Video Games, Card Games, Comics

Other

Ballet

Web-comics

External Links

Cultural connotations

In many cultures, the fox appears in folklore as a symbol of cunning and trickery, or as a familiar animal possessed of magic powers.
In Chinese mythology, ''huli jing'' (狐狸精 húlijīng, ''fox spirits'') lure men away from their wives. The Chinese word for fox spirit is synonymous with the mistress in an extramarital affair.
In Japanese folklore, the fox-like ''kitsune'' is a powerful animal spirit (''Yōkai'') known for its highly mischievous and cunning nature.
The Moche people of ancient Peru worshipped animals and often depicted the fox in their art. ^[1]

The words "fox" or "foxy" have become slang in Western 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, it tends to imply that the woman in question has a few nasty qualities.
The fox theme is often associated with transformation not only in Chinese, but European literature too. There are three main types of fox's stories: description of life of more or less realistic animals, stories about anthropomorphic foxes and tales of fox transformations into humans and vice versa.
Foxes are among the most popular animals in furry-based communities, and there are many people who use an anthropomorphic fox as their alter egos on the Internet or other communities. This popularity is due to many factors, including the popularity of such characters as Miles "Tails" Prower and Fox McCloud, the previously mentioned legends of the Japanese ''kitsune'' and fox spirits, and the also previously mentioned connotations to sexual appeal. Humanoid foxes have a tendency to be sex symbols, and this is especially true for vixens.

Literature (in chronological order)

★ IV BC, Aesop's fables from classical times date ; a fox features in, for example, the parable of the sour grapes.

★ X AD, The medieval story of ''Reynard'', classic anthropomorphic epic.

★ 1532, Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince : The successful prince must have the traits of both the lion and the fox.

★ 1679, Pu Songling, ''Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio'', about human and fox spirits encounters.

★ 1880-1905, Joel Chandler Harris ''Uncle Remus'', Oral stories later written down include Brer Fox from the American South.

★ 1905?, Ernest Thompson Seton, ''The Biography of a Silver-Fox, Or, Domino Reynard of Goldur Town'', realistic with author's dwaring, there are feature film based on.

★ 1909, L. Frank Baum, in ''The Road to Oz'' - fox King Dox of Foxville changes boy's head into fox's.

★ 1920, Rudolf Těsnohlídek's ''Liška Bystrouška'' (''Vixen Sharpears'', ''The Cunning Little Vixen'')

★ 1922, David Garnett's ''Lady into fox'' is about transformation into animal, first physical then mental.

★ 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's ''The Little Prince'', a fox indicates the true value of values such as friendship.

★ 1960, Verkors ''Sylva'', inspired by Garnett where a fox changes into the lady.

★ 1965, Robert Crumb Fritz the Cat coimcs, ''Winston Schwartz'', two animated films

★ 1965, István Fekete ''Vuk'', about life of abandoned fox and his revenge to the hunter, animated.

★ 1967, Daniel Pratt Mannix IV novel ''The Fox and the Hound'' stars a fox named Tod as one of the two protagonists; made into a Disney movie, with a recent sequel.

★ 1977, Richard Adams ''The Plague Dogs'' has a protagonist called 'The Tod' who helps out Snitter and Rowf along their adventure.

★ 1986-, Brian Jacques ''Redwall'' series, foxes: ''Fortunata'', ''Sela'', ''Chickenhound/Slagar'', ''Urgan Nagru'', ''Silvamord'', "Nightshade", and ''Rasconza''; also animated

★ 1989, Garry Kilworth in the ''Hunter's moon'' life and tragedies fo fox family, describes fox's own mythology.

★ 1989, William Wharton (author) ''Franky Furbo'', magical fox rescues American soldier and then he journeys in search for proof of that unusual story.

★ 1994, Gillian Rubinstein ''Foxspell'', where fox's god propose young boy to become fox in favor to proper burial of dead fox's body.

★ 1998, Elizabeth Hand ''Last summer at Mars hills'', Indian boy has magical amulet which allows him change into fox.

★ 2001,2003 - Mordicai Gerstein ''Fox eyes'' and ''Old Country'', where anyone can swithc body with fox if he looks into their eyes long enough.

★ 2002, Browne, N. M. ''Hunted'', girl in coma wakes up in a fox's body in fantasy world.

★ 2005, Pelevin, ''The Sacred Book of Werewolf'', kitsune A-huli searches a path to nirvana for were-creatures.

Young Children books

★ 1908,1912, Beatrix Potter included foxes in her anthropomorphic children's tales -- pursuer in ''The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck'' and the title character in ''The Tale of Mr. Tod''.

★ 1913, Thornton W. Burgess's ''The Green Forest'' - Reddy Fox

★ 1970x, Richard Scarry, series of books, Fixit Fox, a mechanic; also animated

★ 1970, Roald Dahl's ''Fantastic Mr. Fox'' - Mr. and Mrs. Fox

★ 1982, William Steig's children's book ''Dr. Desoto'' about a mouse dentist. - Unnamed patient

★ 1990, Judith Mellecker, ''The Fox and the Kingfisher'' - picture tale about brother and sister who tried to run away from stepmother and changed themself into fox and bird.

★ 1998 Michel Gagné's, ''A search for meaning - The story of Rex''; continues in comics magazine ''Flight (comic)''

★ 2006, Ali Sparkes ''Finding the Fox'' About X-man' world boy whos ability is to change into a fox.

★ 19??, Irina Korshunow, ''The foundling fox'' - picture book about fox which lost his parents and adopted by another mother.

★ 1963?, Miyoko Matsutani, ? ''The bread with color of the fox's tail'' - story about friendship between a girl and a boy-werefox.

Books with loose fox motifs

★ 1919, Johnston McCulley, Zorro, stories about avenger-in-mask, which alias is a "fox" in Espanol.

★ 1986, 2001 Michael Moorcock's ''The City in the Autumn Stars''; ''The Dreamthief's Daughter'', von Beck fameily met with Reynard, one of the last of fox-human people, eradicated by Christians.

★ 1992-1998, Roger Zelazny's Amber series of novels include a tricky red-haired character named Rinaldo (alias Luke Reynard) who is suggestive of the fox archetype.

★ ????-???? A recent addition is the character of Phillipe Rohan in the series of the same name. [source?]

Movies

Animated Movies and series

★ 1937, Ladislas Starevich's puppet-animated feature film, ''Le Roman de Renard'' (The Tale of the Fox)

★ 1940, Disney's ''Pinocchio'', J. Worthington Foulfellow (also known as Honest John, and ironically is extremely ''dishonest'')

★ 1946, Disney's Song of the South, ''Brer Fox''

★ 1972, Ralph Bakshi's 1972 film - ''Winston Schwartz'', the on-and-off again girlfriend of Fritz

★ 1973, Disney's Robin Hood, ''Robin Hood'' and ''Maid Marian''

★ 1973, Zuiyo Eizo episodes ''Fables of the Green Forest'' based on a book ''The Green Forest''.

★ 1981, Disney's The Fox and the Hound, ''Tod''; there are 2006 midquel The Fox and the Hound 2

★ 1982, Attila Dargay's Vuk, a young fox who is one of the most famous Hungarian cartoon characters.

★ 1983, 1997 - Encore Enterprises animated series Chucklewood Critters, fox Rusty

★ 1985, a French animated series, ''Moi Renart'' [1]

★ 1986, Hospital Radio's ''The Space Gypsy Adventures'' D.C. Bones, D.C. Fusky and Gemma and Damien Mildury, animated series.

★ 1987, Sunbow Productions series and comics , Ectar of the possessed the totem of the Fox.

★ 1989, Nelvana ''Redwall (TV series)'' series, based on book.

★ 1991, Don Bluth's Rock-a-doodle based on Chanticleer by Edmond Rostand, a tale about a rooster; one of antagonists of the story is a fat fox Pinky

★ 1991 TV Series ''Bucky O'Hare'', fox ''Captain Mimi LaFloo''; based on 197x comics

★ 1993-1996, ''The Animals of Farthing Wood''; TV series and movie, Fox and his mate Vixen

★ 1993,1996,2007 - Flemming Quist Møller's Danish animated movies and series ''Jack from the Jungle'' - ''Rita'', urban fox

★ 1993, Tezuka's ''Akuemon'', anime based on Japanese folk tale about fox-wife

★ 1997, Tezuka's ''In the Beginning: The Bible Stories'' - Vixy, narrator

★ 1999-2003, Nickelodeon's ''Dora the Explorer'' - Swiper the Fox, mischievous fox

★ 2005 a Thierry Schiel CGI film ''Le Roman de Renart'' (Renard the fox)

★ 2006, Lee Seong-gang's South Korean animated film ''Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox'' - ''Yobi'', young kumiho-girl

Cult Anime

★ Sonic the Hedgehog series - Miles "Tails" Prower, two-tailed fox

★ Naruto - Kyuubi no Youko, the nine-tailed demon fox, the most powerful Bijuu which possesses Naruto

★ Digimon - Kyubimon and Renamon

★ Yu Yu Hakusho - Kurama

★ InuYasha - Shippo, a small fox demon

★ Pokémon - Vulpix and Ninetales.

★ Hyper Police - ''Sakura'', eight and half-tailed kitsune.

★ Slayers - ''Zilas'', henchmen of Valgave

★ Bleach - ''Sajin Komamura'' captain of the 7th division

★ Zoids - the Shadow Fox

Feature Movies

★ 1973, ''The Belstone Fox'' (''Free Spirit''), fox ''Tag'', Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox"

★ 1973, Ukrainian movie (director ''Igor Negrescul'') ''Domino: A life of a silver fox''

★ 1990, Akira Kurosawa's ''Dreams'' – a boy goes to the forest to see where the foxes have their weddings

★ 1994, Russian (Rirector ''Ury Klimov'') ''Once lives a fox'', story of a fox escaped from the zoo.

★ 2001, Jackie Chan's ''Rush Hour 2,'' ''Zhang Ziyi'' played the character ''Huli'', which means ''Fox'' in Chinese.

★ 2005, Andrew Adamson's '', Mr. Fox, voiced by Rupert Everett. A fox also appears during a Christmas feast in the novel, and is turned to stone by the White Witch.

★ 2006, Helen the Baby Fox Seven-year old Taichi found a baby fox which named ''Helen''

★ ?? Kazakhstan's movie ''The last fox'' - boy rescues fox from the trap

★ ?? Estonia's movie ''Life of the fox''

Video Games, Card Games, Comics

★ Fox McCloud, James McCloud, and Krystal from the ''Star Fox'' series of Nintendo video games.

★ Keaton of the ''Legend of Zelda'' video games.

★ Pokémon - Vulpix and Ninetales.

★ Miles "Tails" Prower, a two-tailed fox that can spin his tails like a helicopter to fly, from the popular Sonic the Hedgehog series by a branch of Sega; Sonic Team.

★ Inspector Carmelita Fox, a police officer in the Sly Cooper series of video games.

★ Riff and his girlfriend in the computer game "Inherit the Earth"

★ The James Bond parody Spy Fox, star of a computer game series.

★ Crazy Redd, the Black Market salesman from the Animal Crossing games.

★ In Trickster Online, Fox is the female sense type character.

★ In the trading card game , Eight-and-a-Half-Tails is a legendary fox monk of great power and purity. {The name of this creature may be an attempt to avoid a copyright violation against Nintendo and Game Freak, as there is already a Pokémon named Ninetales.)

★ Video game series, Metal Gear Solid, the special forces group is known as "Fox-Hound". It has a logo of either a fox carrying a knife in its mouth, or a cartoon fox with a grenade in one hand, and a machine pistol in the other. Fox is also the highest level codename an operative can receive, designating the highest level of skill.

★ Ninetails, a major boss character from the game Okami. Its source of power is the Fox Rods, which contain nine Tube Foxes, one for each tail. During battle with Ninetails, the tails turn into women and must be defeated individually. (It should be noted that this character's name is spelled differently than Ninetales'.)

★ Titus the Fox: To Marrakech and Back, fox mascot in a platform game

★ In the Image Comics series Kiss: The Psycho Circus, the members of Kiss are portrayed as supernatural beings who train a Feudal Japanese samurai to outsmart supernatural foxes. The warrior outsmarts the fox spirits by applying the fox makeup identity of the late Kiss drummer Eric Carr

Other

★ Fuse the Fusion Radio fox

★ 1963,1968,2002,2006 Peter Firmin's ''Basil Brush'', British television sock-puppet

Ballet

★ The fox in ballet performances of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

★ 1916, ballet by the Igor Stravinsky ''Renard''

★ ballet ''The Cunning Little Vixen'', based on book

Web-comics

★ ''Ozy and Millie'', foxes starring in a webcomic of the same name

★ ''Black Tapestries'', a popular webcomic about a drifter who was cursed by a mage into a gray werefox.

★ ''Tales from Mynarski Forest''- webcomics about hare ''Skippy'' and ''Liska'', the fox

External Links

★ Fox bibliography