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Korean Monsters: Creatures, Myths and Legends (1) (en Inglés)
Kai Alder (Autor)
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Korean Monsters: Creatures, Myths and Legends (1) (en Inglés) - Kai Alder
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A fox that has spent a thousand years learning to wear a human face. A goblin born from a broom someone forgot in a corner. Reapers who arrive at dusk with your name already written in their ledger.Korea has monsters, and it has had them for five thousand years - born on a peninsula where mountains outnumber plains, where a traveler could vanish on a forest road and leave nothing behind but his sandals. Millions of people now meet these creatures on screen in Goblin, Kingdom and Tale of the Nine Tailed without knowing what they are looking at.This is not an encyclopedia. Where other books on Korean folklore file their creatures alphabetically, Korean Monsters gives each of fourteen beings a chapter of its own. Every chapter opens with an atmospheric fiction scene that puts you face to face with the creature, then widens into a cultural essay: where it came from, how it changed across the centuries, what it says about the civilization that dreamed it, and why it still matters.The fourteen:The Gumiho - the nine-tailed fox who devours livers to become humanThe Dokkaebi - trickster goblins born from discarded objectsThe Jeoseung Saja - death's black-clad, bureaucratic grim reapersThe Bulgasari - the iron-eating beast born of a dying monk's resentmentThe Haetae - the fire-devouring guardian who knows a liar on sightThe Imugi - the thousand-year serpent still waiting to become a dragonThe Bulgae - the fire hounds that chase the sun and cause eclipsesThe Cheonyeo Gwishin - the ghost of the woman who died unmarriedThe Mul Gwishin - the water ghost that pulls swimmers underThe Samjoko - the three-legged crow that lives inside the sunThe Bonghwang - the Korean phoenix, who appears only to a just rulerThe Chollima - the winged horse no rider has ever tamedThe Inmyeonjo - the human-faced bird that guides the dead between worldsThe Jangsan Beom - the white tiger of Busan that mimics a woman weeping, born on the internet in our own centuryThe sources run from the Samguk Yusa, compiled in 1281 by the Buddhist monk Iryeon, through the mudang shamans who carried Korean mythology in performance rather than in books, down to the Naver blogs and KakaoTalk threads where the newest monster was born. Korean names appear in romanization alongside hangul; you do not need a word of Korean to read this book.For readers of Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology and Stephen Fry's Mythos, and for anyone who arrived through K-drama and wants to go deeper than the subtitles. Book one of the Korean Mythology trilogy, which continues with Korean Gods and Korean Legends. Read more
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