Foxes Unearthed Quotes

“The Finns also have a rather lovely word for the aurora borealis: revontulet, which translates as ‘foxfire’. The origins are supposedly in a Finnish fable, in which an Arctic fox, running through snow, sprayed up crystals with his tail, causing sparks to fly off into the night sky.”
― Lucy Jones, Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain

“it is possible that the Irish word for ‘I play the fox’, sionnachuighim, is where the word ‘shenanigans’ comes from.”
― Lucy Jones, Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain