Felt Fox Mongolia

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Felt Fox

***** Location: Mongolia
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation


Photo by Gegeen Yertunts

Mongolian people hang a felt fox above a little baby to sleep well. There is a legend that the fox cheats baby when he/she sleeps. If there is a fox, made by felt above the baby, the real fox cannot cheat baby and baby sleeps well.

Zaya Nargui

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“Dreams of Foxes”



At the bottom of each hanging string is an image of a fox fashioned from felt. This is based on the Mongolian belief that if you hang an image of a fox over a baby’s crib the baby will not have bad dreams.
source : www.doncronerblog.com

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Families in Mongolia don’t prepare for a baby’s arrival by buying clothes, toys or other necessities or even selecting a name. They feel to do so is premature and could result in bad luck, so there’s a flurry of activity once the baby is born.
Once the baby is born families regularly hang a grey felt fox on a string above the baby’s head when they sleep.
The fox is said to protect the baby from bad dreams and stops them crying at night. Mongolians believe a fox comes to the dreams of new born babies and takes the mother away, which makes the baby cry.
source : blog.worldvision.com.au - Tamara Blackmore


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Things found on the way


. Fox Daruma, Kitsune Daruma　狐だるま　狐達磨 .


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HAIKU

sleeping
baby looks so very cute
under the felt fox

- Shared by A. Sodkhuu -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013



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Related words

***** . Fox (kitsune) and Kigo .

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boot bells for babies



Mongolians hang 2 little bells in boots of toddlers. It's to know where the baby is.

baby's boot bell
lost in the spring quarter
rings in my dream . . .

Ido Nyamsuren

The spring quarter is a place where the herders spent a few weeks before moving on.


sun flounces-
on the boots' bells
of my son

Nadala Purevdorj


- Shared - Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013 -




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***** MONGOLIA SAIJIKI


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