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Eerie tales from old Korea / compiled by Brother Anthony of Taizé.
Penn Museum Library GR342 .E37 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Korea.
- Tales.
- Korea.
- Physical Description:
- 175 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Irvine, CA : Seoul Selection, [2013]
- Summary:
- Homer B. Hulbert and James S. Gale, two of the most famous North American missionaries to come to Korea in the 1880s, were very fond of ghost stories, but for years the Korean scholars they met swore that no such stories existed in Korea. Eventually, they discovered that Korea, too, had a plentiful supply of ghosts and spirits, celebrated in many eerie tales. However, because the stories had seemed too frivolous or were connected with shamanism and Buddhism, the scholars had been ashamed to talk about them. A main source of these stories were collections of yadam. These were a form of short tale, especially popular in the Joseon period. Whereas Confucian classics were the gateway to officialdom, yadam offered an escape valve, dealing with things much closer to daily life. The stories told there were about individuals who were not always admirable paragons of Confucian virtue; rather, they were often artful dodgers who managed to escape from tricky situations; survive traps; deal with ghosts, spirits, and nine-tailed foxes; and even get rich in the process. As we celebrate the one hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Hulbert and Gale, the present selection of Korean ghost stories-nostalgic for their echoes of the lost world of old Korea and its many ghosts-is offered for the pleasure of readers in the twenty-first century, one hundred years after their original publication. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I
- A Beggar's Wages 15
- A Hunter's Mistake 22
- The Donkey Maker 24
- A Submarine Adventure 27
- Necessity, the Mother of Invention 33
- The Essence of Life 41
- The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg 44
- An Aesculapian Episode 48
- Cats and the Dead 57
- A Korean Jonah 60
- A Brave Governor 63
- Hen Versus Centipede 67
- A Tiger Hunter's Revenge 74
- How Jin Outwitted the Devils 82
- The Ghost of a Ghost 90
- The Tenth Scion 96
- Part II
- The Story of Jang Doryeong 105
- Yun Se-Pueong, The Wizard 112
- The Literary Man of Imsil 115
- The Man on the Road 118
- The Man Who Became a Pig 121
- The Grateful Ghost 124
- Ten Thousand Devils 127
- The Home of the Fairies 133
- The Snake's Revenge 146
- The Brave Magistrate 149
- The King of Hell 152
- Hong's Experiences in Hades 157
- Ta-Hong 163.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781624120022
- 1624120024
- OCLC:
- 856413290
- Publisher Number:
- 99956134865
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