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Real Name |
Sister Fox, Lisichka-sestrichka |
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First Appearance |
Eastern European Folklore |
Origin[]
Kuma Lisa is a character who is a fox from Macedonian, Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian folklore. She usually plays the role of the trickster, as an archetype. Many folk tales as well as authored works use the character of Kuma Lisa. In many tales Kuma Lisa is encountered with another character known as Kumcho Vulcho - a wolf which is opposite to her and very often suffers from her tricks.
In Western European folklore, words relating to foxes, such as French "renard", have a masculine grammatical gender, which is why Western European foxes are usually depicted as male foxes, but the word лисa (lisa) in Russian has a feminine grammatical gender, which is why nearly all depictions of foxes in Russian folklore are female.
Public Domain Appearances[]
All published appearances of Kuma Lisa from before January 1, 1930 are public domain in the US.