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I think between the tengu, tanuki, and humans, each one kind of accepts that the other has a certain predisposition and they mainly keep quarreling within their own social orders.
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Apr 18, 2017 04:25
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I think there are some cultural context clues that make it a bit more clear. In Shinto folklore, you have kitsune and tanuki who are magical beings. As far as I know, the actual kitsune animal is the same as the magical creature of folklore. In other words, the real animals--foxes and raccoon dogs--were seen as magical beings. They could shapeshift and even take on human forms. So you can see how a tanuki at once has the qualities of an animal, a human, and a spirit. This did not stop people from trapping them, hunting them, or cooking them in ancient times, so it makes sense that the Friday Fellows would do the same things in modern Japan, and that it takes a conscious effort for the professor to question the ethics of doing so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachi-kachi_Yama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunbuku_Chagama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danzaburou-danuki
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