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    612-822-4611

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Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies

Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies

Ryuk, Yi
Gale, James S.
Bang, Im

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1532742819
ISBN13: 9781532742811
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Apr 14 2016
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.29 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are of the three great religions of the Far East, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. An old manuscript copy of Im Bang's stories came into the hands of the translator a year ago, and he gives them now to the Western world that they may serve as introductory essays to the mysteries, and, what many call, absurdities of Asia. Very gruesome indeed, and unlovely, some of them are, but they picture faithfully the conditions under which Im Bang himself, and many past generations of Koreans, have lived. The thirteen short stories by Yi Ryuk are taken from a reprint of old Korean writings issued last year (1911), by a Japanese publishing company. Three anonymous stories are also added, The Geomancer, to show how Mother Earth has given anxiety to her chicks of children; Im, the Hunter, to tell of the actualities that exist in the upper air; and The Man who lost his Legs, as a sample of Korea's Sinbad. The biographical notes that accompany the stories are taken very largely from the Kuk-cho In-mul-chi, Korea's Record of Famous Men. J. S. Gale.

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