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Article: The fox in world literature: reflections on a "fictional animal".
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- Asian Folklore Studies
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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THE FOX (vulpes vulpes), which includes the red fox, the cross fox, and the arctic fox, among others, lives all over Europe, West and East Asia, and in many parts of North America (ZIMEN 1980, 2; BURROWS and MATZEN 1972).* Hardly any other mammals living in the wild enjoy as much popularity as the fox--both male and female (vixen) alike--in the traditions since antiquity (see UTHER 2003, 2004, and 2006 for numerous textual examples). It should be kept in mind that many languages do not have a female form for the word fox. Thus, at times it is impossible to distinguish between the male fox and the female fox, as in the German, Fuchs and Fuchsin, or the English, fox and ...
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