Katie Badenhorst
2011
Digital vector work
Dimensions variable
In Japanese myth foxes (kitsune) who live long lives can acquire supernatural powers. Over time they grow extra tails, until they have nine.
These fox spirits are tricksters, who might pocess young women.
They also have the ability to appear human, and there are stories of men you have fallen in love and even married foxes only to realize later that they were deceived.
This a vector illustration designed to be printed on a large scale.
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