The Nine-Tailed Fox

Card meaning

Upright - there is patience here that means to fill a hundred years. Only, the last day is always the longest.

Reversed - open it one day early and the ninety-nine years go with it.

The card meanings are a game.

The tale

The gumiho is told of as a fox with nine tails.

The tales say a fox that has lived long takes human shape.

In many versions it must keep a condition in order to become human.

The condition is often broken just before it is fulfilled.

The condition and the ending differ from region to region.

Where you can see this in Korea now

We have not yet measured which places connect to this tale.

Sources

한국민족문화대백과사전 「구미호」

국립민속박물관 한국민속대백과사전 「여우 설화」