[KS] Thanks

[K. Maksymyk & D. Prendergast]

Dear List Members,

I would also like to send my thanks to all those who responded to my 
query. In thanks therefore I wish to give to a tiny extract from the 
excellent novel "The Shaman Sorceress". The context:  The tragic 
heroine Eulhwa is summing up how she sees her role as shaman during a 
vibrant argument with her son concerning Christianity.

"To this day I have been curing those who were possessed of ghosts and 
about to die or had their livelihood ruined as a result. By the Great 
Rite or the Rite of Banishment I part the ghost from his host and send 
him to the otherworld....it is good to save one on the verge of death 
but is it not a thankful and marvellous thing to open up the way for a 
ghost that gropes about having lost its way and let it fly across to 
the otherworld?"                        (Kim : 1988 : 140)

....she then goes onto infuriate her son by comparing herself with 
Jesus.

Again, many thanks :)

David Prendergast

Department of Social Anthropology
Free School Lane
University of Cambridge
++44 1223 5

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