The field in the West Lake is very flat, local people cultivate and do business, now called Hồ Động (Fox cave).

The land here is high and dry, people build houses to live in, now called Hồ Thôn (Fox village).

[1][2][3][4]In Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, it is recorded that Emperor Lê Thái Tổ was once saved by a hồ ly tinh.

Lê Thái Tổ thought that it was the girl who saved him, later he named her the guardian god of the country and made a statue of a girl with half a body of a nine-tailed fox, called Hồ ly phu nhân (狐狸夫人), Hộ quốc phu nhân (護國夫人) or Hộ quốc hồ thần (護國狐神).

[5] At the end of the 18th century, the scholar Phạm Đình Hổ described the statue of Hộ Quốc phu nhân in his work Vũ Trung tùy bút as follows: " ...That statue has a human head and the body of a hồ ly, very beautiful figure, the shape of a young girl, her hair in a bun and brooch.

Legend in the Danang and Khánh Hòa areas says that: In the past, Xuân Thiều village was a desolate land full of miasma, dense forests, and many wild animals.

One night the villagers saw a nine-tailed fox emerge from the cave and a feathered bird flew back from the mountain and transformed into two beautiful women.