A kitsune is a fox, though the term is usually reserved for a fox that refines its talents over the years and acquires wisdom with age, and it was thought that a fox lucky
enough to survive fifty or a hundred years would then be sufficiently skilled in magic to transform into a person. As a sign of its seniority, a long-lived fox would develop an extra tail with each passing century, until it possessed nine and had become impossibly powerful and clever.
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