Fox Spirit of Zapotec
The fox is a significant animal in Oaxacan Zapotec belief, where naguales and soul-companions may take animal form, and where caves and the underworld (Lyobaa) belong to the spirit world. The entry presents the Zapotec fox as a solemn guide of souls and helper of shamans, a plausible but generalized synthesis; specific 'psychopomp fox' tales are not widely recorded.