2018-12-14

kitsunebi fox fire legends

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kitsunebi 狐火と伝説 Legends about the "fox fire"

. kitsunebi 狐火 "fox fire" .
"fox lantern", 狐の提燈 kitsune no choochin
"devil's fire", onibi 鬼火 (おにび)
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Kitsunebi is a phosphorescent fire (or ignis fatuus) believed to be vomited from the mouth of a fox.
David Lanoue

"a mysterious light associated with spirits,
found in various folklore tales"



. onibi 鬼火 "demon fire", "devil's fire" .

. kaki 火気 と伝説 Legends about fire .
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. Ooji no kitsunebi 王子の狐火 (おうじのきつねび)
day of the fox deity at Oji Inari Shrine .

kigo for late winter
and more about
Ooji Inari Jinja 王子稲荷神社 Oji Inari Fox Shrine Tokyo


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Kitsunebi to Hitodama 狐火と人魂
伊那郷土史学会, 1959

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reibi 霊火 "soul fire"

鬼火,狐火 onibi, kitsunebi
phosporous light is Onibi. It is often seen at graves.
燐は鬼火という。墓などには狐火といって化生物などが火をともして見えたり消えたり、行きつつ戻りつつする。鬼火は化け物などのともす火をいう。



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hotaru 蛍 fireflies
蛍をくちくさという。礼記で腐草は蛍となるという。また燐の字を蛍と読む。馬の血は蛍となる。ならば馬の血が蛍になるというのはもっともなことである。また狐火を燐火ということがある。この燐の字に馬の血の意味がある。これで世俗に狐火とは馬の骨を燃やすというのではないか。

. hotaru 蛍 fireflies .




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伊那郡 Ina district 高遠町 Takato machi

reibi 霊火
夜な夜な霊火が出る所は、対岸からもそれが見える。その場所は自学屋敷といわれ、城主の侍臣であったのが、主を害した罪によって毎日指を一本ずつ切られた後、殺されたことへの怨みであろうという。

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南佐久郡 Minami-Saku district 川上村 Kawakami village

. seen along the river 千曲川 Chikumagawa .

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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
140 collecting (7)

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2 comments:

Gabi Greve said...

Legend from Fukushima
Fukushima 福島県
東白川郡 Higashi-Shirakawa district 塙町 Hanawa town // 縫物の師匠


. kitsunebi 狐火/ キツネビと伝説 Legends about the "fox fire" .
The father of 藤田スイ氏 Fujita Sui, 藤原金次郎 Fujiwara Kinjiro, was nuimono no shishoo 縫物の師匠 a famous craftsman for sewing. He went with two companions to トウドウさん /東堂山 Mount Todo San (668 m) and on their way home they took chikamichi 近道 a shortcut.
They were wearing fashionable scarlet coats. On the way they sat down to have a smoke.
They saw a kitsunebi 狐火 fox fire appearing and disappearing, coming and going. They looked at it for a a while with enjoyment and then went home.
The family members told them they were smelling of shit. Their scarlet coats were full of fox shit.
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https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2020/05/takumi-master-craftsman.html
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Gabi Greve said...

Legend from Yamanashi 富士吉田市 Fujiyoshida City 向原 Mukaihara
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kitsuneppi 狐っ火 / キツネッピ Kitsunebi in local dialect
加藤憲明 Kato Noriaki once saw kitsuneppi 狐っ火 a fox fire near 阿弥陀堂 the Amida Do Hall.
It looked almost like a group of hotaru 蛍 fireflies.
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https://gokurakuparadies.blogspot.com/2021/04/amida-do-hall-legends.html
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