Milky Quartz Fox Pendant Necklace

For someone who collects the stories in their jewelry. A pale fox carving on a beaded necklace.

A fox with a story to tell.

In East Asian folklore the nine-tailed fox is a creature of long life and quick wits, a shape-shifter at the center of many old tales. This pale translucent carving shows a fox face framed by curling tails, beneath a gold-tone flower connector and mixed beads.

The story

The nine-tailed fox first appears in the Shanhaijing, a collection of geography and myth compiled more than two thousand years ago: in the land of Qingqiu, it says, there lives a fox with nine tails. Later tales gave the fox the power to change shape, and said that the older a fox grew, the more it could do.

Keep it with your favorite story pieces.

Wear it as a carved focal piece, then lay it flat in its own compartment between wears. As a gift, include a favorite fox story and a few words about why you chose it for that person.

Details

• Materials: Milky Quartz, mixed beads and gold-tone metal
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• One beaded necklace with a carved fox pendant.
• See also: All Metal Birthday Bracelet · 12mm

Each carving varies a little in color and clarity.