Citations:gumiho

Noun: "(Korean folklore) a shape-shifting fox spirit"

 * 2012, "Translation Notes", Laon, Volume 5, unnumbered page:
 * Gumihos are able to transform into human form, generally beautiful women, in order to seduce men.
 * 2016, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, page 146:
 * In their human guise the gumiho will seduce a man, kill him, and then consume his liver.
 * 2017, Taejo Park, Incognito, unnumbered page:
 * Soon, I recognized that she was a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox.
 * 2020, Renée Ahdieh, The Damned, page 70:
 * At Bastien's back, a passel of admirers—two half sprites, a boy with the white hair of a phouka, and a girl with the telltale fox eyes of a gumiho—loitered in a semicircle around the chaise, exchanging expressions of open hunger.
 * 2020, Kat Cho, Vicious Spirits, pages 15-16:
 * Somin had grown up hearing stories about gumiho—nine-tailed foxes with the ability to live forever as long as they devoured the energy of men.
 * 2020, Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagent, unnumbered page:
 * Most collaborators were less obvious about it, but Hak was a gumiho, a shapeshifting fox spirit.