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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....

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Caught in a Cultural Rip Current

I swore just before the first Harry Potter movie came out that I would never read "those" books that everyone was so crazy about, but like everything, one should never say never. Stuck at work at the Waldenbooks calendar kiosk on a slow day before the start of the holiday shopping craze, I picked up the first Potter book from the display out of boredom. From page 1, I was hooked and I've followed the series since then; dropping $20-30 for hardcovers on the day of release and even going to the midnight release party for HP and the Half-Blood Prince (while on crutches with an orthopaedic boot and painkillers). On Friday, I'll be repeating this to get my 2 copies of HP and the Deathly Hallows, book 7. And for the second time, I'll be doing this lamed. But I'm not complaining. It's been worth every ounce of pain and every penny spent. I'm not so caught in the rip current that I'll be dressing in costume like hardcore fans do (Star Wars and Star Trek fans come to mind), but I have been Sorted (twice. First into Slytherin and then into Ravenclaw five years later), I do own a house scarf which I knitted myself. It was, in fact, the project I used to learn knitting, and I am seriously considering the purchase of a wand from Alivans. Speaking of which, just for fun, here's the "perfect wand" for me.


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12"Holly Wand with core of Dragon Heartstring


You scored 42 wisdom, 44 bravery, 10 emotional, and 11 martyrdom!




Holly is a powerful protective wood that good for use against evil, but it also represents dreams and fertility. Your dragon's heartstring core makes your wand very effective in hexes.




Link: The Harry Potter Wand Test written by sputnik845 on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test


Pretty generic really, but I haven't found a better quiz. Potter will go down in history with the Wizard of Oz and other such cultural icons. But no matter what, me and my knitting will be traveling with the rip on Friday rather than swimming across. I hate it when my geek shows.

posted by Sionnach, the Celtic Kitsune | 11:40 PM

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