Badger
The badger denotes clumsiness, cunning, lunar magic, weather knowledge, healing, and trickery, while European moral imagery makes it Avarice’s mount and East Asian lore supernatural.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 2 figures (1 is this, 1 carries it)
- Traditions
- Indian folklore (1)Japanese folklore (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Mujina is Japanese folklore
why
The Mujina is a shape-shifting badger from Japanese folklore, capable of transforming into a human form.
- Rompo bears Indian folklore
why
The Rompo, a creature from Indian and African folklore, is a bizarre being, with the limbs of a rabbit, the head of a hare, and the body of a badger.