[Y-Indology] Banshee

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Dunno just yet, but there is a delightful Japanese

tradition of the kitsune, a fox that transforms into a

lady and seduces the wayward traveler, then transforms

back into a fox and runs away laughing. Not quite a

banshee, I'm afraid.

Japanese mothers, I understand, would tell this

kind of story to their babies, and say KITSU!! to

scare them, and then ne... with a smile.

There is a long article by Penner on this subject,

and a hard-to-find but beautiful novelette by David

Garnett (the son of the Dostoevsky translator) called

LADY INTO FOX.

 

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