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Or the fox being sneaky was a pretty universal symbolism, and both the Danish and Japanese saw the Christians as sneaky, manipulative people.
They weren't? ๐คท๐ฝ
I think the poster forgot to finish their sentence with 'that they were'
Do you think the left figure depicts a christian monk? I find it hard to tell and no dates are provided.
It's not a Christian monk.
AMAFs.
Considering how gossip and stories tend to be passed down, my bet is that someone once saw a bunch of people that wore wolf skins over their heads (think roman velites) and, from mouth to mouth exaggeration, it became "walking, talking dogs/wolves"
The Japanese one is not depicting a Christian monk, and the Danish one is depicting a Catholic monk, but it was made by Lutherans as part of the anti-Catholic movement of the Reformation.