Den of the Celtic Kitsune

About Me

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....

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

The "Lucy" Bag is on the needles

Project name: Lucy Bag
Project Start: July 20, 2007

This project looks like it's not going to be long on the needles. The bag, which I bought as part of a kit from the Lion Yarn website, is more or less a knit version the pattern I've used to crochet hats. Easy and quick to knit. I hope the strap set up will be as easy.

In other Knitting news,I've finished a little less than 1/4 of the ends-weaving on the argyle scarf project.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Maybe it was all the hype, but after finishing HP 7 this morning, I'm feeling a bit let down. The end of the series was somewhat anticlimactic and I felt like I was wading through quicksand while trying to read it. Maybe in a year or so I can go back to it and reread with more enjoyment, but my first impression is that it's definitely lacking the enchanting sparkle of previous books in the series.