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Encounter dragons, fox spirits, and divine guardians that haunt Asia’s mountains and temples. These creatures embody lessons of respect, power, and transformation across the East.

Illustration of a Gumiho as a beautiful woman with nine luminous fox tails in a moonlit Korean forest.

Gumiho (구미호): The Korean Nine-Tailed Fox

by Quwwatu-Llah Oyebode

November 18, 2025

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The Gumiho (구미호), sometimes spelled Kumiho in older romanization, is one of the most iconic and complex figures in Korean mythology. She is a fox spirit with nine tails, a creature both feared and desired, and a symbol of the dangerous intersection of beauty, appetite, and transformation. While similar in broad outline to the Japanese kitsune and Chinese huli jing,

Illustration of a horned, blue-skinned Japanese oni wielding an iron club on a misty mountain landscape.

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Oni (鬼): Japanese Demons and Ogres of Folklore

Few figures in Japanese folklore are as iconic, or as adaptable, as the Oni (鬼). Instantly recognizable by their fearsome forms, oni appear as hulking giants with brightly colored skin, usually red, blue, or sometimes black, with wild hair, prominent fangs, and one or two sharp horns curling from the top