>>40911827
Foxes and Coyotes can be friends or enemies depending on the circumstance. Right now, on Turtle Island, encroachment and all of the spiritual imbalance has turned things desperate and violent in a bunch of areas. It’s really not good. We are supposed to be contemporaries, not enemies.
For Fox and Coyote (singular) this causes friction.
>>40911888
Nice trips! Wow the dubs. This is a great question, and it excites the folklorist in me. Sorry if I’m not as cogent as usual. I’m hungry, it’s hot, my stomach has been bothering me…all around a lot of frustration.
So these are considered threshold numbers. In *official* Shrine Shintō you really only see acknowledgement insofar as what people will believe is understood to be important and something to acknowledge or work with. However, Minkan (Folk) Shintō we are all over that and all about that so let me get to it.
You know how 4chan has its own numerology? It’s a related concept. It is said that accumulation of 100 of units of anything is a threshold event. Followers, money, years, whichever. These days numbers are so bloated that typically you sort of adjust for inflation, so to speak, but for foxes (and other Yōkai) this is still serious business. A fox of 100 years old is said in most folklore to be when the first tail split happens, with each hundred getting a new tail. Same for a lot of other Yōkai, in fact. Years (or year-equivalents) passing the threshold mark evolution, power, etc.
So the 99 is important as it’s about to get to the line, 100 is the line, and 101 is over the line. Although, I’d say most people probably consider 100 and on the line to be the same as going over it.
The best example of this are the tsukumogami. These are the tool spirits, and after 100 years they become Yōkai unless given proper funerary rights when they can no longer be used. FYI this is where John Lasseter got most of his inspiration from.