Daozhang, you can't be angry at me for having manners!

[Really, now...]

that's what people don't get about fox spirits. They aren't inherently good or bad, but they are tricksters and pranksters, and they will hold grudges if you antagonize them. If the story is true... killing one is a good way to antagonize them.

But then, I don't get why they re-enact these things. Villagers get killed, so the villagers resent the foxes more, and foxes get killed to so they keep cursing the villagers. Aren't they just in a loop?