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In Japanese folklore, kitsunes are believed to possess great intelligence, long life, and magical powers. Foremost among these is the ability to shapeshift into human form; a fox is said to learn to do this when it attains a certain age (usually a hundred years, though some tales say fifty). Kitsune usually appear in the shape of a beautiful woman, a young girl, or an old man, but almost never an elderly woman. Supernatural powers commonly attributed to the kitsune include, in addition to shapeshifting, the ability to generate fire or lightning from their tails or to breathe fire (known as kitsune-bi, literally "foxfire"), the power to manifest in dreams, the power to fly, and the ability to create illusions so elaborate as to be almost indistinguishable from reality. Some tales go further still, speaking of kitsune with the ability to bend time and space, to drive people mad, or to take such nonhuman and fantastic shapes as a tree of incredible height or a second moon in the sky. And that's just what I do every day. You should see what I do in my spare time....

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Gratuitous Cat-blogging

Figgie finally deigned to pose for a winning picture except I ended up with "pet-eye" from the flash. The best remedy for this problem is to nix the flash and use natural light, but I have north-facing den that doesn't get much actual sunlight. Alas, the flash is a necessity. So I present my first attempt and editing out the pet-eye in photoshop. Thoughts? Opinions?

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I think the eyes look a little too human but I haven't yet figured out how to set the paintbrush to create oval cat pupil. Will have to keep working on that. Either way, how can you resist a face like that?

posted by Sionnach, the Celtic Kitsune | 2:07 PM

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