“Fact-Checking My Own Episode Seven”

In episode seven, this series claimed that unconnected cultures independently invented the same court-infiltrating villain. This episode goes back and checks every comparison: the Sanskrit name that doesn’t mean what I said, yakshinis and peris that don’t behave the way I described, a West African water spirit shaped by centuries of contact, an overstated trail from China to Japan, and details about Japan’s Killing Stone that don’t hold up. It ends with what survives, a revised reading, and the rules this series will follow from here. Episode 14 of an animated series exploring East Asian fox legends, with the sources checked.