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