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| '''Huli Jing''' or '''Fox Fairy''' is a domicile demon considered extremely [[evil]] and dangerous.
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| ==Origin==
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| In Chinese lore the '''Huli Jing''' is a spirit resembling the characteristic of vampires as he takes life force out of his victims through sex.
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| This spirit is one of the most feared in Chinese lore as terrifies the living by shapeshifting into many forms and haunting places.
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| ===Element===
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| '''Huli Jing''' is a domicile demon.
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| *it can only be seen by night in the house for it’s invisible by day; it often sighted crouched on the roof of the house and gets offered incense and food by its inhabitants as a sign of respect and fear.
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| ==Main Belief==
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| It was believed that '''Huli Jing''' was the spirit of the dead who had been rising from the grave.
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| *It is also common belief that this demon has shapeshifters ability and can turn into a beautiful woman, often fond of virtuous scholars
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| *'''Huli Jing''' can be both male and female and its main purpose is to take the vital essence of its human lover; that is achieved during orgasm. Eventually the lover will waste and die.
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| *'''Huli Jing''' enjoys shapeshifting in the form of long dead persons in order to haunt houses and scare mortals
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| * a trickster with deadly power, it may possess its prey out of sheer malevolence; they say generations of madness in a family can be the result of having injured a '''Fox Fairy''' (one of its transformations);
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| *'''Huli Jing''' can transport persons in the air as well as giving those who worship him the ability to enter a house passing through walls.
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| ===Weaknesses===
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| *When the demon is in female form, get her drunk in order to revert it to its true shape. Once discovered it will vanish.
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| *If caught off guard in fox form and its tail, the source of its power, will be cut off, it will leave never to return again.
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| *To get rid of the spirit paper charms must be burnt, their ashes mixed in tea and drunk by the victim.
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| ==References==
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| *Guiley, Rosemary Ellen, ''The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monsters', Checkmarks Books, ISBN 0816046859;'
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| *Mack Carol and Dinah, ''A Field Guide To Demons'', OWL Books, ISBN 08506270;
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| ==See Also==
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| [[Baobhan Sith]]
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| [[Kitsune]]
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| [[Incubus (demon)]]
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| [[Leanan Sidhe]]
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| [[Lhiannan Shee]]
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| [[New England Vampires]]
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| [[Succubus]]
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| [[Category:Chinese mythology]]
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| [[Category:Household spirits]]
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| [[Category:Shapeshifters]]
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