• A Spirit Exists in Everyone
  • On the evening of the last day of the lunar year, Ho-yun said, “I am bored. Please call for an entertainer.”
  • “Is that so?” Sahng-jeh-nim replied. “Just wait.” He said to someone else, “Bring Me a poker.” With the poker He drew a cross and then a circle on the ground. Before long, a female shaman arrived.
  • “You just drew something here,” Ho-yun said. “How did the shaman know to come?”
    “My spirit brought her here.
  • A spirit exists in everyone. You have one and so do others. If you did not, you would be dead.
  • Just as an eye cannot function without a pupil, you cannot do anything without a spirit.”
  • Sahng-jeh-nim Plays Drums with a Shaman
  • The shaman took a bag of rice from storage and poured it outside the entrance of the house, making a pile. She then erected a small flag, using the rice as the base for the pole. Clanging cymbals, she did a ritualistic dance that lasted throughout the night.
  • “She is pretty good,” Sahng-jeh-nim said. “A shaman needs such talent to be useful.” He then performed a work of renewal in which He woke the children in the house, picked them up, and played with them and the shaman.
  • Sahng-jeh-nim tossed a sack of rice with one hand. He also played an hourglass-shaped drum called a jahng-gu and a round drum called a book, both belonging to the shaman. He played the jahng-gu marvelously, even doing so with His feet.

  • (JSD Dojeon 3,116)




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