I guess I'd better live up to my reputation now that someone's oh so kindly fixed up my title. I actually have a bit of an advantage in that I was distracted this month and didn't read or vote, so my responses can be purely from a first time read perspective.
So for Henry, don;t worry, no obliteration here. In fact I'd like to start by saying how impressed I am that you always manage near 500 word entries. As someone who struggles to even write a short post on the forums, I find that quite enviable, and every story of yours I've read has been well structured with a clear plotline, so great work.
Narrativewise, this was well written, clear, concise, and had an underlying tone that worked really well for a story to be told to children. I didn't see or else notice any spelling mistakes.
"The shrine priestess refused the gathered villagers"
I don't think you need the extra gathered here. This was likely a product of gather being in your head from the previous sentence.
"The spirits of this world don't understand what it's like to work each day for the sweat of their brow."
Something jarred me with this sentence. I think the phrase, 'for the sweat of their brow' didn't quite make sense. Maybe there's a typo here and you meant sweat off their brow, but even then, brow sweat is a product of working hard, not something you work for, unless your using it as a simile, in which case, do these foxes get sweaty brows?
Opulance is probably not a good word in light of the target audience of this type of work. You'd be better to go with something like wealth.
Plotwise, you may want to rethink the black fox and/or some of the elements. The moral didn't really grab me because I was more sympathetic with the villagers than the foxes.
First off, the underying hunger issues meant that the villagers acted more out of desperation than greed, so I'd remove the backstory of their bad harvests and push it towards them wanting more than they reasonably needed.
Secondly, the one who tricks them also being a fox is a slight issue, since I'd assume these foxes are revered equally, so the black one being a bad egg is beyond the scope of the villagers understanding. From their eyes a fox spirit has come down and told them they can take some food to sate their hunger pains, so why wouldn't they do it?
Also, if the supreme spirit fox is all seeing and knowing, then surely he must be aware that it was the black fox who tricked the villagers and not them just going vigilante before the priestess returns with an answer. I'd suggest switching the black fox out with another animal like a snake, or, if you wanted to keep to the status quo that foxes are sly and inherently evil, change the forest spirits into either deers or something that is more easily pictured as a berry eater.
Finally, it comes off as rather odd that the fox spirit condemns the villagers for stealing food from the mouths of animals right before going out and massacring animals in vengeance. You need some more clarification between the wild beasts vs farm ones here, but even still it seems a somewhat ironic response, one that feels ineffective to me since there's nothing stopping the villagers hunting the wild animals of that forest now that they've been deserted by the spirits and are unprotected and vulnerable.
